Antique Master Print-RIVER-LANDSCAPE-BRIDGE-ISLAND-BOATS-Almeloveen-1810

Medium: Etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 20.4 x 16.4 cm (8.03 x 6.46 inch). Image size: 14.9 x 9 cm. (5.87 x 3.54 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.

JAN VAN ALMELOVEEN, RIVER LANDSCAPE, BRIDGE, ISLAND, SAILING BOATS, DUTCH ETCHING, PASTORAL LANDSCAPE, FIGURES, VILLAGE, HOLLSTEIN 30 | 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: Hollstein 31. Part of a series of six Various Landscapes. Cat. Kunsthist. Bibl. Rijksmus. Amst. I, p. 225; WorldCat 921087103, 921087104, 740254525; Rijksmuseum RP-P-1996-84.

Biography engraver: Jan van Almeloveen (1656–1684) was a Dutch painter, etcher and physician. He is especially known for his small-scale landscape etchings that combine Dutch scenery with Italianate motifs, making him one of the more distinctive landscape printmakers of the late seventeenth century.