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Lucas Emil Vorstermanc. 1630
- Attribution
- Lucas Emil Vorsterman (Flemish, 1595-1675) after Adam de Coster (Flemish, c.1586-1643)
- Medium
- Engraving on ivory paper
- Physical dimensions
- Image: 25.5 × 34.4 cm (10 1/16 × 13 9/16 in.); Sheet, trimmed within platemark: 27.7 × 35.7 cm (10 15/16 × 14 1/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Bernard F. Rogers Collection
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Adam de Coster was a prominent painter of illuminated night scenes in Antwerp around 1630, about the same time that Lucas Emil Vorsterman was engraving works after his popular contemporaries in the same city. A student of Peter Paul Rubens, Vorsterman employed a style that was originally similar to that of the Flemish master, until a falling out with Rubens and subsequent trip to England provoked him to create stronger, more stylized, Caravaggesque engravings such as Backgammon Players . Clearly influenced by De Coster’s handling of light, Vorsterman brightened the otherwise dark scene with two candles whose flames illuminate the faces of those seated around the table.
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