Antique Master Print-LARGE-TREE-RESTING-TRAVELLERS-LANDSCAPE-Scheyndel-1810

Medium: Etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 20.4 x 16.4 cm (8.03 x 6.46 inch). Image size: 13.7 x 9.8 cm. (5.39 x 3.86 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing, and soiling. Minor age-related wear and slight staining in the margins. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

GILLIS VAN SCHEYNDEL, SEVEN LANDSCAPES, LARGE TREE, TRAVELLERS, RESTING FIGURES, WOODLAND LANDSCAPE, DUTCH GOLDEN AGE, HAARLEM SCHOOL, RURAL SCENERY, SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ETCHING, SPIEGEL DER NATUUR | EXPO-DUTCH

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

From: ‘Spiegel der natuur en school ter teekenkunde, bevattende LXXVI afbeeldingen van landschappen, landsdouwen, watergezichten, enz. enz. Allen zoo veele studiën van Silvestre, Perelle, Quinault, Du Moulin, Della Bella, Zaftleven, Almeloveen, Van Schyndel, Nolpe, Vermeulen, Visscher en Schenk (…)’. Published by Jan Steven van Esveldt Holtrop, Amsterdam, 1810. The publication assembles studies after celebrated seventeenth-century masters intended for artistic training. .

State: Extremely rare ed./restrike from original seventeenth-century copperplate. From a series of seven landscapes.

Reference: Cat. Kunsthist. Bibl. Rijksmus. Amst. I, p. 225; WorldCat 921087103, 921087104, 740254525; Rijksmuseum RP-P-1996-84.

Biography engraver: Gillis van Scheyndel I (c.1580–1658) was a Dutch painter, draftsman and printmaker active in Haarlem during the Dutch Golden Age. He specialized in wooded and river landscapes and produced a small but distinctive oeuvre of landscape etchings characterized by atmospheric effects and strong contrasts of light and shadow.