6001 - 6426 FINE ARTS - GRAPHIC ART, 16th-19th CENTURY
= Rare series with splendid engravings of richly ornamented rooms and alcoves.
- Cut just on/ outside the image.
= Very rare. Probably part of a series of the Four elements. The fashion and the headdress of the woman suggests a date around 1690. So probably made by Cornelis Danckerts II. The Rijksmuseum holds another mezzotint in very similar style, incorrectly attributed to Cornelis Danckerts I.
- Ample margins; trifle/ sl. foxed. = Hollstein 19-21, 1st state of 3.
Visscher, Jan de (1633-after 1682). (Pastoral landscapes). Three (of 8) etchings after Nicolaes BERCHEM, each ±24,8x34,5 cm. (borderline).
= Hollstein 108, 109, both 1st state of 2 and 112, 1st or 2nd state.
AND 2 others by the same after the same: Hollstein 105 (3rd state of 3) and 114 (later impression).
- Partly cut out from various publications; partly foxed/ browned.
= Also on thicker wove paper. I.a. from the series "Les Paysagistes" and "Les Beaux Jours de la vie" (17x).
- Sl. stained; left and right margin cut to the borderline.
= From the series The Fables of Calisto (Herbet 169, 176 and 178) and The Loves of Pluto and Proserpina (Herbet 161 and 167). All w. the collector's mark of Gustave-Francoise Morin (Lugt 1178) on recto in lower margin.
= Newcome Schleier 19, the first state of 2, before the addition of aquatint.
AND 5 other prints, 17th to 19th cent., i.a. by Karel DUJARDIN.
- Small rubbed spot in left part of the image; trifle browned and foxed (mainly) in blank margins.
= After the painting now in Musée d'Orsay. On thick paper.
- All sl. (finger)soiled, a few sl. browned; April lacks portion of upper decorative border and w. a few sm. stains; June upper margin cut short, w. sl. loss of image; november margins frayed, just touching the image.
= Rare series. Lacks the month of December. Almost complete series of the 12 Months, showing human activities during the specific months and each with an allegorical border. All with the collector's mark of Albert van Loock (Lugt 3751) on verso. Robert-Dumesnil 225-235; Inventaire Fonds Français 16e siècle, 200-210, probably 2nd state of 2. IFF mentions the 2nd state with the address of Ciartres but also with numbers in the right corners, not present in our copies. Perhaps an intermediate state. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVI.
- One sl. thin spot; trifle soiled.
= Robert-Dumesnil 374. With the collector's mark of George Ambrose Cardew on verso (Lugt 1134).
- Cut on the platemark; formerly laid down w. glue residue along edges on verso; sl. soiled.
= De Lemayrie 648.
- Both tipped onto mount; cut just outside/ inside the borderline; sl. stained. = Hollstein 44f.
= Hollstein (Van Mander) 56-69; Hollstein (Dolendo) 10-22; Hollstein (De Gheyn family) 37-49. Hollstein 56 in 3rd state (of 3) w. the address of Jacob Colom in lower margin; all other engravings in the first state (of 2). Hollstein 56, remarks that this 3rd edition/ state was "used in Jeremias de Decker, Goede Vrijdag, Ofte het Lyden onses Heeren Jesu Christi, Amsterdam Jacob Colom, 1654." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVI.
- Old annot. in pen and ink in upper blank margin.
= Hollstein 29, 2nd state of 3, with the number.
AND an etching of a title-p. by Marcus de BYE after Paulus POTTER.
= Hollstein 10, only state. On laid paper with a partial watermark showing a crowned bird.
Idem. The goats at the river. The cart in front of the inn. Two etchings from the series of 6 Small landscapes, both ±4,7x5,8 cm., "48" or "50" in the plate.
= Hollstein 48 and 50, both only state.
AND 1 other by the same: Study of heads (Hollstein 44).
- Ample margins; sl. agetoned and sl. grey impressions; a few foxed spots. = Rare series.
- Sl. fingersoiled.
= On sl. thick laid paper. Meder 154, impression from a later 17th cent. (early 18th?) edition, b (with the woodblock defects in the edges); Schoch 215.
- Cut on the borderline; tipped onto mount; somewhat browned; very sm. tear in upper right corner (former tipping point). Good impression.
= Meder 195, watermark 246 (dated by Meder ±1600); Schoch 173. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVII.
- Fine copy.
= Mirrored copy of Schoch, Mende, Scherbaum 84 (Meder 38). There are two mirrored copies known of this print, one by Jan Wierix and the other by Jacob Binck. This copy differs from that by Wierix i.a. in that it doesn't have "Ae 14" engraved on the left side of the stone in lower left corner, the pebbles surrounding the stone are different and details of the Virgin's hair and of the mountains in the background on the right are different; the copy by Binck has Binck's monogram on the stone in lower left corner (our copy has "1518 AD").