Antique Master Print-TRAVELER-PEASANT-DOG-RESTING-TREE-LANDSCAPE-Bloemaert-1650

This print shows a view on a traveler with a basket on his back, resting with his dog under a tree. From a series of 16 peasants. Text below print is missing.

Made by after an anonymous artist.

Medium: Engraving / etching on handlaid (verge) paper. Watermark: J kool.

Sheet size: 24.5 x 17.6 cm (9.65 x 6.93 inch). Image size: 15 x 10 cm. (5.91 x 3.94 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Creases. Holes in left margin because of binding. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

TRAVELER-PEASANT-DOG-RESTING-TREE-LANDSCAPE | RBOS-A11-16

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This attractive print was originally published in ca 1650. This is probably from an early 18th.c. ed.

Biography engraver: Cornelis Bloemaert II (1603 – 28 September 1692), was a Dutch painter and engraver, who after training in the Dutch Republic worked most of his career in Rome. His workshop in Rome played an important role in spreading Italian art throughout Europe and attracted many young engravers from abroad.