[Five angles of a muff]
[Antwerp[,
1645-46.
Etching.
78 by 130mm. (3 by 5 inches).
18645
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 is a study in still-life, showing a muff from five different angles. Monteyne has hypothesised that this item plays a symbolic role in Hollar's work:
"The fur muff in these etchings is shown to be an enigmatic entity, not only intersecting with issues re...
"The fur muff in these etchings is shown to be an enigmatic entity, not only intersecting with issues re...
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 796 I; Pennington 1952.