ABSTRACT
The paintings of David the Younger inspired an incredibly large outpouring of prints executed after him. It is virtually impossible to arrive at an exact count of these prints. The British Museum itself owns over five hundred. Printmakers have copied David the Younger's paintings since the seventeenth century, although the majority of the prints after David Teniers seem to have been made during the eighteenth century. Most graphic artists reproduced several of David the Younger's works. The large number of seventeenth-century prints after Teniers is most interesting because these works easily show that David the Younger was indeed quite popular. It is more likely that other members of the Tardieu family also made prints after Teniers in the eighteenth century. Isolating which artist created which print is complicated by the family tendency to sign works, "Tardieu."
