Antique Master Print-MUSIC TEACHER-LUTE-SINGING-Bitthauser-Netscher-1820

Original master print, titled: ‘La Lecon de Musique Vocale’. It shows a music teacher with a lute teaches singing to a lady, attended by a handmaiden.

Made by Johann Pleikard Bitthauser after Caspar Netscher.

Medium: engraving / etching with hand colouring on wove paper.

Sheet size: 38 x 49 cm (14.96 x 19.29 inch). Image size: 24.5 x 33.5 cm. (9.65 x 13.19 inch).

Condition: excellent, given age. Left edge a little uneven. A small repaired tear backed with acid-free archival tape. Traces of framing to the rear. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

MUSIC TEACHER-LUTE-SINGING | DP-B1-12

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Original antique master print. Our definition of a Master Print is a seperately published print or series of prints, not being an illustrative print to a text. These can both be prints made by old masters (artists) or prints made by others (artists, engravers, etchers) after old masters. Artists and Engravers: Engraved by Bittheuser after a painting by Netscher. This print was published by Chasselat, in c.1820.

Biography engraver: Johann Pleikard Bitthauser (1774-1859) was a German engraver. He studied under Johann Gotthard Muller in Stuttgart, and later became a teacher himself.

Biography artist: Caspar Netscher (1639-1684) was a Dutch portrait and genre painter. He was born in Heidelberg or Prague, but fled with his mother and sister to Arnhem during the civil war. He became a pupil of Ter Borch for a few years before embarking on a Grand Tour. He died early, in 1684, but his legacy was thenceforth carried by his two sons, Constantyn and Theodorus.