Print Description
Month of January. Dutch village landscape with figures on ice
Made by Isaac de Wit Jansz after Jacob Cats.
Medium: Etching / engraving on wove (vellin) paper.
Sheet size: 24 x 21 cm (9.45 x 8.27 inch). Image size: 17.5 x 14 cm. (6.89 x 5.51 inch).
Condition: good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
MONTH OF JANUARY-DUTCH VILLAGE-FIGURES-ICE | PCO-A9-07
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
From a series of twelve months. Ref: Wurzbach 5.
New arrival ? preview ? item not fully described ? inquire for updated info.
Biography engraver: Isaac de Wit Jansz. (1744-1809) was an engraver active in Amsterdam and Haarlem. He worked together with J. P. Visser Bender. .
Biography artist: Jacob Cats (1741- 1799) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman and etcher. However, he was born in Altona, Germany. As his father was a Mennonite bookseller who had to flee Amsterdam because of a controversial publication. Few years later the family returned to Amsterdam, where Cats studied under Abraham Starre and Pieter Louw. Cats was acclaimed for drawing townscapes and landscapes with realitically rendered persons and animals, his works having a distinct originality, and being marked by a poetical rendering of the features of nature, as well as by careful manipulation. He also created a good feeling of depth in his work. (Source: Wikipedia).
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.