Antique Master Print-TEMPLE-RUINS-CLASSICAL-LANDSCAPE-POOL-Le Clerc-1810

Medium: Etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 20.4 x 16.4 cm (8.03 x 6.46 inch). Image size: 17.3 x 9.1 cm. (6.81 x 3.58 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.

SÉBASTIEN LE CLERC, TEMPLE RUINS, CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE, CAPRICCIO, LANDSCAPE WITH RUINS, REFLECTING POOL, ARCHITECTURAL FANTASY, SPIEGEL DER NATUUR, ESVELDT HOLTROP | EXPO-FRENCH

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: After the series ‘Livre de paysages dédiés à Monsieur de Beringhen’ (1693). Cat. Kunsthist. Bibl. Rijksmus. Amst. I, p. 225; WorldCat 921087103, 921087104, 740254525; Rijksmuseum RP-P-1996-84.

Biography artist: Sébastien Le Clerc (1637-1714) was a French engraver, draftsman, engineer and mathematician active in Paris. He became one of the foremost printmakers of the reign of Louis XIV and produced thousands of prints including landscapes, architectural capricci, ornament designs, book illustrations and topographical views. His compositions were widely copied throughout Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.