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Wenceslaus Hollar
Four original etchings of women from 'Aula Veneris' series by Wenceslaus Hollar

1643

$3,200
£2,457.46
€2,816.22
CA$4,504.81
A$5,046.38
CHF 2,624.75
MX$61,555.45
NOK 33,416.51
SEK 31,509.38
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Presented here as a group are four original etchings of women in European national dress from the master printmaker Wenceslaus Hollar's series "Aula Veneris: sive, Varietas foeminini sexus (The Court of Women: or, the Variety of the Most Feminine Sex)". Prints of men and women in costume were a popular genre for collectors of the seventeenth century. Hollar would have seen these simple, small-scale prints as an opportunity to take advantage of that market, and he produced several groups of costume prints in the 1630s and 1640s. He began self-publishing "Aula Veneris" in 1643 after his primary patron in London, Thomas Howard, the Earl of Arundel, left for Austria preceding the English Civil War. The series began under the title Theatrum Mulierum (The Theater of Women) before being retitled after the artist emigrated to Antwerp. Though the plates would suggest a desire to create an encyclopedic grouping of women's costume, he appeared to have planned for the series to be open-ended: the prints were likely sold individually rather than in bound books or portfolios, as no collection of them today has the same combination. Nonetheless, this allowed the series the flexibility to be amended with new additions in later decades, adding to its international breadth. Girl from Zurich in wedding dress (Virgo nuptialis Tiguriensis), upper left A Women of Prague (Mulier Pragensis), upper right Unmarried woman from Zurich (Virgo Tiguriensis), lower left Strasbourg bride (Virgo nuptialis Argentinensis), lower right Etchings in black on wove paper, each trimmed to plate edge and tipped 3.5 x 2.25 inches, each sheet 21.5 x 21.5 inches, frame each signed in the plate, lower left Framed to conservation standards using archival materials including 100 percent rag matting and mounting. Housed in a gold finish wood moulding. Prints in good and stable condition; some wrinkling in each corner from tipping; frame in overall good condition with some losses to gold finish. Wenceslaus Von Prachna Hollar was a prolific and accomplished Bohemian graphic artist of the seventeenth century. His work embraced a great variety of subjects, including scenes from the bible, historical pictures, maps, portraits of his chief contemporaries, views of cities, flower and fruit pieces, and various illustrations to books. His clever sketches of costume, his views of old London and other cities are invaluable to the historian. His engravings are executed with much spirit and carefully finished. Having produced more than 3000 different prints during his career, his works can be found in every major museum collection from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the National Gallery in London. Source: Hughes, Heather. "Luxury and Morality: Fashioning Englishness in Seventeenth-Century Costume Prints," in 'Clothing As Culture: Delineating National Character In Costume Prints,' c. 1600-1650. PhD diss., University of Pennsylvania, 2017.
  • Creator:
    Wenceslaus Hollar (1607 - 1677, Czech)
  • Creation Year:
    1643
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 21.5 in (54.61 cm)Width: 21.5 in (54.61 cm)
  • Medium:
    Etching,Paper
  • Movement & Style:
    Old Masters
  • Period:
    17th Century
  • Condition:
    Prints in good and stable condition; some wrinkling in each corner from tipping; frame in overall good condition with some losses to gold finish.
  • Gallery Location:
    Milwaukee, WI
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 9841g1stDibs: LU60536874692

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