Antique Master Print-WATERFALL-STONE-BRIDGE-COUNTRYMEN-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: 13.5 x 10 cm. (5.31 x 3.94 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, WATERFALL, STONE BRIDGE, COUNTRYMEN, SEVEN LANDSCAPES, DUTCH LANDSCAPE, BARE TREE, RIVER VALLEY, HAARLEM SCHOOL, SEVENTEENTH CENTURY ETCHING, HOLLSTEIN 112 | 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.

Reference: From the series of 7 oblong landscapes. Hollstein 112. Cat. Kunsthist. Bibl. Rijksmus. Amst. I, p. 225; WorldCat 921087103, 921087104, 740254525; Rijksmuseum RP-P-1996-84.

Biography engraver: Gillis van Scheyndel I (c.1594–before 1660) was a Dutch painter, draftsman and etcher active in Haarlem. He specialized in atmospheric landscapes and produced a small but influential group of etchings characterized by expressive trees, dramatic terrain and carefully observed natural effects.