Antique Master Print-RIVER-LANDSCAPE-HERDSMAN-CATTLE-WATERFALL-Perelle-1810

Medium: Etching and engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 20.4 x 16.4 cm (8.03 x 6.46 inch). Image size: 19.1 x 12.8 cm. (7.52 x 5.04 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.

PERELLE, GABRIEL PERELLE, NICOLAS PERELLE, ADAM PERELLE, RIVER LANDSCAPE, CATTLE, HERDSMAN, WATERFALL, PASTORAL LANDSCAPE, FRENCH ETCHING, PIERRE MARIETTE, 17TH CENTURY | 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: From a series of 8 landscapes. Cat. Kunsthist. Bibl. Rijksmus. Amst. I, p. 225; WorldCat 921087103, 921087104, 740254525; Rijksmuseum RP-P-1996-84.

Biography engraver: Gabriel Perelle (1600–1677) was a French engraver, etcher and landscape artist from Vernon-sur-Seine. Active in Paris, he became one of the most prolific producers of landscape prints in seventeenth-century France. His topographical and imaginary landscapes were widely collected and influenced later French printmaking.