Seller: Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur / ILAB, Den Haag, Netherlands
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Add to basketPrint from a set of several months, which also depicts an element or season. This impression illustrates the month of June.In a hilly landscape shepherds taking care of their sheep within a fence. On the far left, a man shears a sheep, and another man catches anoher. A stable on the left.On the bottom of the margin is a two-line verse in Dutch and a two-line verse in French: Het schape scheren. / Le profit apprend.Signed at bottom, under the title: Pieter Nolpe fecit & Excud.After a composition by Pieter Potter, father to Paulus Potter. Etching on paper, trimmed on or within plate mark; total: 394 x 518 mm; state I/3; some staining and rubbing, traces of previous mounting on verso, otherwise in fair condition. Hollstein 259, Dozy 176.