Name: Antique Master Print-LANDSCAPE-WATERFALL AND FISHERMEN -Beich-Rosa-c.1700-1725
SKU: PICTURA-08918
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Antique Master Print-LANDSCAPE-WATERFALL AND FISHERMEN -Beich-Rosa-c.1700-1725

€245.00

‘INSCRIBED LOWER RIGHT: ?FB FECIT.? NUMBERED IN LOWER MARGIN.’

– Dramatic rocky landscape with towering cliffs, cascading waterfall, stream, and two fishermen seated on the riverbank.

In stock

Description

Medium: Etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 14.1 x 23.2 cm (5.55 x 9.13 inch). Image size: 13.5 x 22.5 cm. (5.31 x 8.86 inch).

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

LANDSCAPE, WATERFALL, FISHERMEN, ROCKS, STREAM, BAROQUE, ROSA STYLE | EXPO-GERMAN

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Plate 4 from a series of six landscapes in the manner of Salvator Rosa. Published in Augsburg by Jeremias Wolff (1663?1724), leading Augsburg publisher specializing in prints, maps, and illustrated books.

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Biography engraver: Franz Joachim Beich (1665-1748), German landscape painter and etcher from Ravensburg, influenced by the Italianate and dramatic style of Salvator Rosa.

Biography artist: Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) is best known today as an Italian Baroque painter, whose romanticized landscapes and history paintings, often set in dark and untamed nature, exerted considerable influence from the 17th century into the early 19th century. .