ID: 700001334 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700001334	Record Type: Movable Work

Tavern with a couple embracing (mezzotint (print); Vaillant, Wallerant (engraver, 1623-1677); Published: n.d.; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 1565-861; 543531; accession number: 2000.PR.40**)

Note: Title from Hollstein; State II. according to Hollstein; also possibly identical with the print listed by Wurzbach under the title "Das traute Liebespaar."; Signed with the monogram: WV, in white, in the bottom right; The Dutch painter, draftsman and engraver Cornelisz Pietersz Bega (ca. 1631-1664) is known for his genre pictures of Dutch peasant life; A reproductive print after Cornelis Pietersz Bega (cf. Hollstein). The print shows a tavern scene: a peasant couple sitting on a wooden bench embraces in a dim, sparsely furnished interior, while in the background to the right of the couple a third figure (an old woman or procuress) turns away from the viewer. A barrel behind the bench, with the image of a duck or goose on its lid, identifies the place as a tavern. The motif of an embracing couple in a tavern setting suggests the pictorial tradition of the theme of the prodigal son with a tavern harlot, a popular subject in Dutch genre painting in 16th-17th centuries; Dutch printmaker, famous for his mezzotint engravings; also a portrait painter. Wallerant Vaillant (1623-1677) was born in Lille and died in Amsterdam. Publication: n.d.

Titles:

Tavern with a couple embracing (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)

Traute Liebespaar. (C,U,undetermined,,)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

mezzotint (print) [300041356] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints, engravings (prints))

reproductive print [300041569]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works))

print (visual work) [300041273]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: Published: n.d.

Creator Display:

Vaillant, Wallerant (engraver, 1623-1677) [preferred,GRISC]

engraver (printmaker) Vaillant, Wallerant (Dutch painter, printmaker, and draftsman, 1623-1677) [500025331]

Bega, Cornelis Pietersz., approximately 1631-1664 (Dutch painter and draftsman, 1631/1632-1664) [500118926]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1565-861; 543531; accession number: 2000.PR.40**

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Display Materials: 1 print: mezzotint, b&w

	prints (visual works) [300041273]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

	mezzotint (process) [300053233]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes, engraving (printing process))

	black-and-white (colors) [300265434]
	.......(Physical Attributes Facet, Color (hierarchy name), colors (hues or tints), neutrals (colors))

Dimensions: image 33.5 x 27.5 cm, on sheet 34.5 x 28.5 cm

General Subject:

genre (preferred)

human figures

another work

Specific Subjects:

	couple [300379217]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), groups of people, social groups) (AAT)

	depictions (visual works) [300248231]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by form>, <visual works by form of image>) (AAT)

	embrace [300343597]
	.....(Activities Facet, Physical and Mental Activities (hierarchy name), physical activities, <physical activities by specific context>, <personal and passive activities>) (AAT)

	tavern [300005207]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, commercial buildings, <eating and drinking buildings>) (AAT)

	Return of the Prodigal Son [901000358]
	.....((Story of the Prodigal Son, Other Christian narratives, Christian iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

Inscriptions: Tavern with a couple embracing

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Tavern with a couple embracing	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 543531
Traute Liebespaar.	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

....................... Hollstein's Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700 v. 31, no. 131

Note:
English	..... [GRISC,VP]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)