Antique Master Print-VIEW-RUINS-Dujardin-1658

View of ruins showing the corner of a building with two arched windows, in a landscape with a stream in the foreground, from a series of four plates showing ruins of a single building.

Made by Karel Dujardin after own design.

Medium: Etching on hand laid (verge) paper. Watermark: Part of watermark visible with multiple French lillies.

Sheet size: 17 x 14 cm (6.69 x 5.51 inch). Image size: 16.1 x 12.2 cm. (6.34 x 4.8 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Some pinholes in corners. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

VIEW-RUINS | PCO-C21-17

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

First published in1658. This Edition c. 1700.

Biography engraver: Karel Dujardin (1626-1678) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Although he did a few portraits and a few history paintings of religious subjects, most of his work is small Italianate landscape scenes with animals and peasants, and other genre scenes. Dujardin spent two extended periods, at the beginning and end of his career, in Italy, and most of his paintings and landscape etchings have an Italian or Italianate setting.