Muff with half-mask

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[Muff with half-mask]

HOLLAR, W[enceslaus]
[Antwerp,
1647].
Etching.
58 by 93mm. (2.25 by 3.75 inches).
18643

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notes:

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...

bibliography:

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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