Theatrvm pictorivm : in quo exhibentur ipsius manu delineatæ, eiusque curâ in æs incise picturæ, archetipæ Italicæ, quas ipse ser.mus Archdux in pinacothecam suam Bruxellis collegit
This is a 1684 Antwerp book of engraved reproductions by David Teniers the Younger, published by Jacobus Peeters, after Italian paintings in the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm's Brussels gallery. The plates are black-and-white prints of religious and genre scenes, dense with figures and draped cloth, showing how Baroque compositions organised groups of bodies and light for reproduction. A designer might take their tight hatching and tonal modelling as a model for dramatic figure studies.
