Antique Master Print-MAERTEN SOOLMANS-OOPJEN COPPIT-Ingouf-Voyez-Rembrandt-1786

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

Sheet size: 29.6 x 45.8 cm (11.65 x 18.03 inch). Image size: 23.5 x 36.5 cm. (9.25 x 14.37 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. . General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

THOMAS COLE, GOUPIL, ROMANTIC LANDSCAPE, COLUMBIA, WATERFALL, 19TH CENTURY, FOREST, NATURE, LANDSCAPE, LITHOGRAPH, HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL | PCO-B2-25

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

‘Galerie du Palais Royal …’, Paris: J. Couche & J. Bouilliard, [n.d., 1786-1808]. This series of plates depict the collection of the Royal Palace in Paris. Each plate is set in a decorative border and accompanied by a descriptive text (by l’Abbe de Fontenal), describing the artist and painting. The author Jacques Couche (1759-1836), was a French engraver, student of Levasseur.

Biography engraver: Francois Robert Ingouf (1747-1812) was a French engraver, etching engraver, etching artist. Jacques Voyez was a contemporary of whom little has been recorded.

Biography artist: Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669), Dutch painter and etcher, widely regarded as one of the greatest visual artists in the history of art and the most important in Dutch art history.