After Adriaen van de Venne (1589-1662) AMOR, UT PILA, VICES EXIGIT [LOVE, LIKE A BALL, DEMANDS RECIPROCATION] etching, originally published on page 32

After Adriaen van de Venne (1589-1662) AMOR, UT PILA, VICES EXIGIT [LOVE, LIKE A BALL, DEMANDS RECIPROCATION] etching, originally published on page 32 of Jacob Cats' ''Spiegel vanden Ouden ende Nieuwe Tijd'', first edition published in The Hague: 1632, which is illustrated with proverbs by Adriaen van de Venne, the work depicts a man and woman playing battledore and shuttlecock in a garden, 13cm., 5in. square, laid down on paper, the title pasted to the reverse Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne was a versatile Dutch Golden Age painter of allegories, genre subjects and portraits, as well as a miniaturist, book-illustrator and designer of political satires and a versifier. His engravings featuring peasants, beggars, thieves and fools as illustrations of current proverbs and sayings for Jacob Cats made him famous during his lifetime, and his work remained popular far into the 18th century.