Name: Antique Master Print-FISH MARKET-SCENE-Ploos van Amstel-van Goyen-1767
SKU: PICTURA-10331
Availability: InStock

Antique Master Print-FISH MARKET-SCENE-Ploos van Amstel-van Goyen-1767

€395.00

‘VG 1653 (INSCRIBED IN PLATE, LOWER LEFT)’

– Animated fish market scene with numerous townspeople engaged in trade, carrying baskets, tending to children, and conversing. A statue stands prominently in the square. Boats and houses fill the background.

In stock

SKU: PICTURA-10331 Category: Genre Prints Tag: Landscape

Description

Medium: Vernis mou etching and roulette, hand-colored on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 18.5 x 13.5 cm (7.28 x 5.31 inch). Image size: 18.5 x 13.5 cm. (7.28 x 5.31 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Clean sheet, full margins. Very minor age toning. Colors still vibrant. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

VILLAGE MARKET, DUTCH GENRE SCENE, HAND-COLORED ETCHING, PLOOS VAN AMSTEL, LAMBERT DOOMER, 17TH-CENTURY VILLAGE LIFE | PCO-E23-56

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Source: unknown, to be determined.

Reference: Laurentius et al. 1980, no. 10, 2nd state. Rear: Ploos van Amstel stamp.

Provenance: Ex. Collection Laurentius.

Biography engraver: Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (1726?1798) was a Dutch artist, collector, and printmaker known for his experimental printing techniques. He pioneered methods of replicating drawings through etching and mezzotint.

Biography artist: Jan van Goyen (1596-1656) was a famous Dutch landscape painter from The Hague.