Lucas Vorsterman II

Lucas Vorsterman II carried the engraver's burin and etching needle into the service of seventeenth-century Flemish printmaking, where reproductive and ornamental subjects dominated his output. His plates range across mythological and animal scenes, decorative friezes crowded with putti, and narrative encounters drawn from the Trojan cycle, alongside royal allegory. This archive holds five of his prints, nearly all executed in etching and engraving, several preserved in their second states, with impressions dating from the 1610s through the 1640s.

5 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)

Satyr with Grapes and Two Tigers

1614–1679 · Etching; second of two states

Apotheosis of James I

ca. 1639–66 · Etching; second state of three (Hollstein)

Frieze with putti, some riding a chariot pulled by animals, others riding animals and holding garlands

ca. 1640–66 · Etching; second state of two (Hollstein)

Achilles and Priam, in conversation outside of Troy (ca. 1644–66, Met-Objekt 1223)

ca. 1644–66 · Etching and engraving

Achilles and Priam, in conversation outside of Troy (ca. 1644–66, Met-Objekt 1224)

ca. 1644–66 · Etching and engraving