Antique Master Print-FEMALE-BEGGAR-RIVER-LANDSCAPE-Schagen-Brouwer-c.1700

“Staande bedelaarster” (Standing female beggar). River landscape with a woman begging for money. She’s seen full-length, in profile, turned to the right, leaning on a wooden stick with her right hand and with a small container in her left. She wears a bin as a backpack on her shoulders with her belongings. A young man stands behind her. Trees and a village beyond the river. Mezzotint after an etching/engraving by Gerrit Lucas van Schagen (1642-1690), after Adriaen Brouwer (1605-1638).

Made by Gerrit Lucas van Schagen after Adriaen Brouwer.

Medium: Mezzotint engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 25.6 x 18 cm (10.08 x 7.09 inch). Image size: 25.5 x 17.9 cm. (10.04 x 7.05 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Some creasing and thin paper spots. Remains of paper tape from previous attachment. Small stain. Light soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

FEMALE-BEGGAR-RIVER-LANDSCAPE | PCO-C43-17

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Source: unknown, to be determined.

Biography engraver: Gerrit Lucasz van Schagen or Schaagen (Latinised Gerardus a Schagen) (c.1642-c.1724) was an engraver and cartographer from Amsterdam, known for his exquisite reproductions of maps, particularly of those by Nicolaes Visscher I and Frederick de Wit. He lived and worked in Amsterdam, on the Haarlemmerdijk near the New Haarlem sluice at the house with the sign “In de Stuurman”.

Adriaen Brouwer (c.1605-1638) was a Flemish painter active in Flanders and the Dutch Republic in the first half of the 17th century. Brouwer was an important innovator of genre painting through his vivid depictions of peasants, soldiers and other “lower class” individuals engaged in drinking, smoking, card or dice playing, fighting, music making etc. in taverns or rural settings. Brouwer contributed to the development of the genre of tronies, i.e. head or facial studies, which investigate varieties of expression. In his final year he produced a few landscapes of a tragic intensity. Brouwer’s work had an important influence on the next generation of Flemish and Dutch genre painters. Although Brouwer produced only a small body of work, Dutch masters Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt collected it.