Antique Master Print-FLANDRIA-BELGIUM-VILLAGE-FARMERS-SHEEP-Wagner-Teniers-1750

This print shows a view on a village in Flandria, Belgium. In the forground we see people harvesting, sheeps and farmers gathering. In the background we see the village with a church.

Made by Jacques Wagner after David Teniers.

Medium: Etching / engraving on handlaid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 34 x 26 cm (13.39 x 10.24 inch). Image size: 32.5 x 24 cm. (12.8 x 9.45 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

FLANDRIA-BELGIUM-VILLAGE-HARVEST-FARMERS-SHEEP | RBOS-A10-35

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This attractive print was published in Paris by Rosselin, ca 1750.

Biography engraver: Joseph Wagner (1706-1780) was a highly regarded eighteenth century engraver and draughtsman. He was born at Thalendorf, on Lake Constance, in 1706. He studied painting at Venice under Jacopo Amigoni. e worked in Rome, Bologna, Paris, and England before returning to Venice, where he founded a printmaking school. His students included Francesco Bartolozzi and Antonio Capellan.

Biography artist: David Teniers (1610?1690). David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II was a Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman, miniaturist painter, staffage painter, copyist and art curator. He was an extremely versatile artist known for his prolific output. He was an innovator in a wide range of genres such as history painting, genre painting, landscape painting, portrait and still life. He is now best remembered as the leading Flemish genre painter of his day. Teniers is particularly known for developing the peasant genre, the tavern scene, pictures of collections and scenes with alchemists and physicians. .