ANTIQUE HAND COLORED PRINT OF MERCHANTS COUNTING THIER SALES Framed “The Miser”

Description: ANTIQUE HAND COLORED PRINT OF MERCHANTS COUNTING THIER SALES Framed "The Miser". One of the formative images of later Flemish genre paintings, Quinten Massys’s Tax Collectors has been rediscovered (now Liechtenstein Collection, Vaduz). Its ledger clearly reveals the proper designation of the figures, despite interpretations of their activity as banking; one of them, wearing glasses, appears to be inspecting accounts. Telling markers of Massys’s own authorship (ca. 1525–30) reveal that his large workshop based at least some of the better copies on this painting. The subject clearly relates to local ambivalence in Antwerp about taxes and the money economy, especially during a period of financial recession. The article concludes with a discussion about later variants derived from Massys’s prototype, especially those by Marinus van Reymerswaele (Paris, London, plus lesser variants), but the theme is still present in Rembrandt’s 1628 Moneychanger (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin) and addressed anew in his etching of Jan Wtenbogaert (1639).(JOURNAL OF HISTORIANS OF NETHERLANDISH ART Massys and Money: The Tax Collectors Rediscovered. Larry Silver). The framed painting was submitted to a painting competition, as evidenced by the document on the back of the painting under the paper.

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Location: Naples, Florida

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