Print Description
This very rare handcoloured print shows a view of two Vessels coming back (title in English) in rough sea. We see the flags in top and the sails hoisted. There are two other ships. From a series of 6 plates.
Made by Moyse Jean-Baptiste Fouard after Jan Karel Donatus van Beecq.
Medium: Engraving/ handcoloured on handlaid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 32 x 23.7 cm (12.6 x 9.33 inch). Image size: 31 x 22.7 cm. (12.2 x 8.94 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Small margin. Stains on reverse. Remains of old paper tape on reverse. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
VESSELS-SHIPS-ROUGH SEA-FLAG IN TOP-SAILING | RBOS-A7-04
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
This attractive print was published in 1683. From a very rare series of 6 plates.
Biography engraver: Moyse Jean-Baptiste Fouard (1653-1726).
Biography artist: Jan Karel Donatus van Beecq (1638-1722) was a Dutch marine painter, who had left the Netherlands when the art market collapsed in the year of disaster 1672. He first followed Willem van de Velde, father and son, to England, but soon moved to France where he became painter to Louis XIV, a member of the Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture and a protege of important patrons. In 1685, the art-loving naval official Esprit Cabart de Villermont wrote a letter to the Minister of the Navy Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Seignelay, recommending Van Beecq to his attention: ‘He is the only one here [in France] who excels in this genre’.
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