Name: Antique Master Print-TITLE-ALLEGORY-EUROPE-BULL-ZEUS-Bloteling-Berchem-1655?1690
SKU: PICTURA-11729
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Antique Master Print-TITLE-ALLEGORY-EUROPE-BULL-ZEUS-Bloteling-Berchem-1655?1690

€195.00

‘AFBEELDINGHE DER VOORNAEMSTE STEDEN VAN EVROPA / UYTGEGEVEN DOOR NICOLAES VISSCHER. / N. BERCHEM INVENT. / AB. BLOTELINGH FECIT.’

– Europa seated on the bull (Zeus), surrounded by her maidens who decorate the animal with flower garlands on the shore. Trees and coastline in the background. Classical allegory used as title piece for Visscher’s European city series.

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Description

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

Sheet size: 29 x 22.3 cm (11.42 x 8.78 inch). Image size: 27.5 x 20.5 cm. (10.83 x 8.07 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing, soiling and creasing. Original middle fold as issued. Some paper separation at this middle fold margins. Small tear at bottom paper edege, backed. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

EUROPA AND THE BULL, ALLEGORY, CITY VIEWS, DUTCH ENGRAVING, TITLE PAGE, NICOLAES BERCHEM, ABRAHAM BLOTELING, NICOLAES VISSCHER, CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY | PCO-E30-12

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Title print for ‘Afbeeldinghe der Voornaemste Steden van Europa,’ published by Nicolaes Visscher I.

Reference: Hollstein Dutch 129-3(4); Rijksmuseum RP-P-BI-1866.

Biography engraver: Abraham Bloteling (1640-1690) was a renowned Dutch engraver and printmaker known for his refined reproductive engravings. He worked in Amsterdam and London, contributing significantly to Dutch book illustration.

Biography artist: Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem (1620-1683) was a Dutch painter and draughtsman, celebrated for his Italianate landscapes and mythological scenes, many of which were later engraved by master printmakers.