Open Cupboard Door

Signed center on the print, "C.N. Gijsbrechts A' 1665". Here we see a glass-windowed cupboard, its door ajar. Tucked behind a horizontal metal bar and into the wooden frame are various written and printed documents and writing implements, while dimly visible within are stacks of coins, eye glasses, sticks of sealing wax and a wooden box. On the door itself, at the very center of the composition, is a small sheaf of prints, stitched together in the upper margins. The etching on top, the only one visible to the viewer, is a small head of a man in profile based on a print by Jan Lievens, but Gysb... Mehr ...