I don't know if I'm off base here, but a friend and I spotted these paintings this summer, while we were visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
The Lacemaker, 1665-60 Nicolaes Maes (Dutch, 1634-1693) The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931 (32.100.5) http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1zoom.asp?dep=11&zoom=0&full=1&mark =1&item=32%2E100%2E5 The Lacemaker Bernhard Keil (Danish, 1624-1687) Bequest of Edward Fowles, 1971 (1971.115.2) http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1zoom.asp?dep=11&zoom=0&full=1&mark =4&item=1971%2E115%2E2 Hope I'm not being redundant, as I've not read every response -- most of those I have read seem to relate to fictional accounts, this may give a different perspective (but maybe Devon has already given out this information!). Anyway, I love these paintings!! Best Regards, Carolyn Carolyn Hastings Stow, MA USA : > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Tamara P. Duvall > Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 7:21 PM > To: lace Arachne > Subject: [lace] Re: Depiction of Lace-makers in 17th century Holland > > > On Feb 28, 2004, at 7:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Devon) wrote: > > > Since the person asked for a "depiction" does she mean a book or a > > picture? > > I have wondered about that myself... I think "sightings" of > lacemaking > in literature (mostly fiction, and mostly along the same lines of > misunderstanding that the worst of your press-persons showed at the > Hasbrouck Heights convention <g>) are somewhere on > Lori-the-Lacefairy' > webpage. As are many visual "sightings" which had been reported here > over the years. > > > At the Met last summer they had an engraving of a 17 > century lacemaker > > by an artist whose name I always get wrong. It is something like > > Golthius, or Goltzius. Tamara wrote it down! > > The engraving was on loan from the Rijksmuseum. > > The *exhibition* was of (Hendrik?) Goltzius (now you have me > wondering > about the spelling of the name <g>) and most of the work was his, but > the engraving in question was by a student of his, Jan Saenredam, one > of the series called "4 seasons"; there was nothing on the caption to > say which of the seasons was depicted, but I'm guessing "summer". > > I'm not sure how accurate it is for the 17th century, either. > The dates > given for Saenredam were: "ca 1565-1607", and I don't > remember any date > given for the picture itself; it could have been done before > 1600 (and, > in any case, he didn't "see" *much* of the 17th c -- less than a > decade...) > > ----- > Tamara P Duvall > Lexington, Virginia, USA > Formerly of Warsaw, Poland > http://lorien.emufarm.org/~tpd/ > > - > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing > the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
