Antique Master Print-WINTER-ICE-SKATERS-CHURCH-VILLAGE-CANAL-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: 14.2 x 10.2 cm. (5.59 x 4.02 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, WINTER LANDSCAPE, ICE SKATERS, FROZEN CANAL, CHURCH, DUTCH VILLAGE, SEVEN LANDSCAPES, DUTCH GOLDEN AGE, WINTER SCENE, HAARLEM SCHOOL, SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ETCHING | 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. He is known for a small but important group of landscape etchings depicting wooded scenery, waterways and seasonal subjects. His prints are valued for their atmospheric treatment of nature and their rarity.