The Big Fish Eat the Small

Maarten de Vos (published by Joan Baptista Vrints (Flemish, active 1575-1612))

c. 1580

Medium

Engraving in black on cream laid paper

Classification

Print

Dimensions

Plate: 23.5 × 29.1 cm (9 5/16 × 11 1/2 in.); sheet: 25.9 × 33.6 cm (10 1/4 × 13 1/4 in.)

Culture

Flanders

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings

Credit line

Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Prints
• Animals
• 1500s
• Belgium
• Orange