Antique Master Print-COUNTRY-HOUSE-GENTLEMAN-BRIDGE-LANDSCAPE-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: 17.4 x 9.3 cm. (6.85 x 3.66 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, MAISON D’UN GENTILHOMME DE CAMPAGNE, COUNTRY HOUSE, ESTATE, BRIDGE, FORTIFIED GATE, MONSIEUR DE BERINGHEN, FRENCH LANDSCAPE, SPIEGEL DER NATUUR | 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, mathematician and military engineer. He became one of the most influential printmakers of seventeenth-century France, producing extensive series of landscapes, architectural views, ornament prints and book illustrations. His works were widely copied throughout Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.