[Muff with half-mask]
[Antwerp,
1647].
Etching.
58 by 93mm. (2.25 by 3.75 inches).
18643
notes:
During the 1640s, Hollar produced a series of still life etchings with a focus on fashion, perhaps to complement his other contemporary series on women's dress and his female personifications. The present example features a fur muffs, lying partly on a white lace handkerchiefs, accompanied by a black half-mask. Monteyne has hypothesised that the muffs that appear in such prints plays a symbolic role in Hollar's work:
"The fur muff in these etchings is shown to be...
"The fur muff in these etchings is shown to be...
bibliography:
Monteyne, J. 'Enveloping Objects: Allegory and Commodity Festish in Wenceslaus Hollar's Personifications of the Seasons and Fashion Still Lifes', Art History 29(3), 2006; NHG Hollar 383; Pennington 1948.
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