Antique Master Print-RIVER-ITALIANATE LANDSCAPE-ROCK-Boudewyns-vd Meulen-1810

Medium: Etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 20.4 x 16.4 cm (8.03 x 6.46 inch). Image size: 14.5 x 11.5 cm. (5.71 x 4.53 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.

RIVER LANDSCAPE, ROCKY COAST, TOWN VIEW, DRAMATIC CLOUDS, STAFFAGE FIGURES, ADAM FRANS VAN DER MEULEN, ADRIAEN FRANS BOUDEWYNS, PASTORAL LANDSCAPE, DUTCH PRINT, HOLTROP | 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: Cat. Kunsthist. Bibl. Rijksmus. Amst. I, p. 225; WorldCat 921087103, 921087104, 740254525; Rijksmuseum RP-P-1996-84.

Biography artist: Adriaen Frans Boudewyns (1644–1719) was a Flemish landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher known for pastoral and military scenes. Adam Frans van der Meulen (1632–1690) was a Flemish painter and draughtsman who worked for Louis XIV and became renowned for panoramic landscapes and military subjects.