Skip to main content
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 7

Israel Silvestre
17th century engraving black and white landscape ancient building scene

ca. 1650

$1,950
£1,450.47
€1,698.21
CA$2,720.91
A$3,044.78
CHF 1,589.84
MX$37,432.37
NOK 20,057.66
SEK 18,874.16
DKK 12,669.98
Shipping
Retrieving quote...
The 1stDibs Promise:
Authenticity Guarantee,
Money-Back Guarantee,
24-Hour Cancellation

About the Item

In the mid-seventeenth century, views of historic landscapes and classical structures were increasingly popular among print collectors, and artists like the Frenchman Israel Sylvestre were eager to fill that demand. In this example, Sylvestre captures a view of the Arch of Constantine, showing the monument of the Roman emperor as a ruin of a bygone era. Figures inhabit the landscape, emphasizing the scale of the massive arch, and in the distance are much younger villas, emphasizing the passage of time. 2.75 x 5.5 inches, artwork 11.25 x 14.25 inches, frame Entitled 'Arco di Constantino' in the plate, lower center Framed to conservation standards using archival materials including 100 percent rag silk-lined matting, UV5 plexiglass glazing to inhibit fading, and housed in a gold gilded moulding with a 24-karat gold fillet. Israel Silvestre (1621–1691) was a prolific French draftsman, etcher and print dealer who specialized in topographical views and perspectives of famous buildings. Orphaned at an early age, he was taken in by his uncle in Paris, Israel Henriet, an etcher and printseller, and friend of Callot. Between 1630 and 1650 Silvestre travelled widely in France and Italy, which he visited three times, and later worked up his sketches as etchings, which were sold singly and in series. His work, especially of Venetian subjects published in the 1660s, influenced eighteenth-century painters of vedute such as Luca Carlevaris and Canaletto, who adapted his compositions. In 1661 he inherited the stock of plates of his uncle, the printseller Israel Henriet, among which was a large part of the works of Jacques Callot, and many of those of Stefano della Bella. In 1662 he was appointed dessinateur et graveur du Roi and in 1673 he was appointed drawing-master to Louis, le Grand Dauphin. From 1668 he was granted workshop space in the galleries of the Louvre, where the practice of housing eminent artists and craftsmen was a tradition that was originated under Henri IV. Silvestre's atelier was large: he had at least two pupils who had careers as engravers, Franqois Noblesse and Meunier, and In 1670 Charles Le Brun recommended him for membership in the Acadeemie royale de peinture et de sculpture. In 1675 his son, the artist Louis Silvestre, was born at Sceaux.
  • Creator:
    Israel Silvestre (1621 - 1691, French)
  • Creation Year:
    ca. 1650
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 11.25 in (28.58 cm)Width: 14.25 in (36.2 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
    Mid-17th Century
  • Condition:
    Overall good condition with no toning to paper; some planar distortion in corners; some wear to frame.
  • Gallery Location:
    Milwaukee, WI
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: 10659g1stDibs: LU60536297052

More From This Seller

View All
17th century engraving black and white landscape ancient building scene
By Israel Silvestre
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Tempo di Minerva Medica" is an original engraving by Israel Silvestre, titled along the lower edge. This miniature print depicts the ruins of the Temple of Minerva Medica in the Rom...
Category

1650s Baroque Landscape Prints

Materials

Engraving

17th century engraving black and white landscape ancient building scene
By Israel Silvestre
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Tempio Della Pace" is an original engraving by Israel Silvestre. The title is printed below the miniature image. It shows a frontal view of the remains of the Temple of Peace in Rom...
Category

1650s Old Masters Landscape Prints

Materials

Paper, Ink, Engraving

17th century engraving black and white landscape ancient building scene
By Israel Silvestre
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Veduta del Palazzo Maggiore" is an original engraving by Israel Silvestre, titled along the lower edge of the image. The miniature image depicts an idyllic landscape framed with sil...
Category

1650s Baroque Landscape Prints

Materials

Engraving

17th century engraving black and white landscape ancient building scene
By Israel Silvestre
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Veduta Presso di San Stefano Rotondo" is an original engraving by Israel Silvestre, titled along the bottom of the image. This small etching shows an unusual view of the church San ...
Category

1650s Baroque Landscape Prints

Materials

Engraving

17th century etching black and white landscape scene forest trees figures sky
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Le Temps, Apollon, et les Saisons (Time, Apollo, and the Seasons)" is an etching by Claude Gellée (Le Lorrain). This etching is the Fifth state (A). This state is also in collections in Paris (BN, L, PP) and Washington; Mannocci cat. no. 43. The inscription reads: "Apollo in atto di obedire al tempo. La Primavera a cominciare il ballo. Lestate no manca del suo calore. L'aurunno colsuo licore / Seguita. Linvernno tiene la sua staggione, Claudio Gillee inven.Fec.Roma 1662 con licenza de super." A powerful example of Claude's staging of landscape in the classical manner is the etching "Time, Apollo, and the Seasons," done in 1662 after Poussin's painting of 1624-1636, "Dance to the Music of Time...
Category

Mid-17th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching

17th century etching black and white figurative landscape trees buildings
By Jan Frans van Bloemen (Orizzonte)
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Conversation Outside Castle" is an original etching by Jan Frans van Bloemen. It depicts a number of figures just outside the majestic walls of a castle. These groups of figures are engaged in their own conversations. 9" x 6 3/4" art 21 5/8" x 19 3/8" frame Jan Frans van Bloemen (baptized 12 May 1662 - buried 13 June 1749) was a Flemish landscape painter mainly active in Rome. Here he was able to establish himself as the leading painter of views (vedute) of the Roman countryside depicted in the aesthetic of the classical landscape tradition. Van Bloemen predominantly painted classical landscapes, taking his inspiration from the Roman Campagna. His landscapes, with their recession through a series of planes, soft, warm lightning and classical and religious subject matter, drew on the examples of artists such as Claude Lorrain and Gaspard Dughet. His paintings are exquisitely imbued with that "difficult-to-define pastoral ambience" which helped to make him such a great painter in the eyes of his contemporaries. The technique and subjects of the work of Jan Frans van Bloemen are also related to painters such as Jan Asselijn...
Category

18th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching

You May Also Like

17th Century Gabriel Perelle "Landscape" Etching, France, circa 1660
By Gabriel Perelle
Located in Cagliari, IT
A French landscape by Gabriel Perelle. With a modern walnut frame Gabriel Perelle (Vernon, 1604 - Paris, 1677) was a French engraver, draftsman and printer of topographic views and landscapes. A pupil of Simon Vouet, Perelle specialized in landscapes with a classical setting, not unlike those of Francisque Millet, although with clearly decorative pretensions. He founded an etching lab, with the collaboration of his sons Nicolas and Adam. Perelle was also a pupil of Daniel Rabel and produced hundreds of engravings from his drawings, as well as compositions by fellow antagonists such as Israël Silvestre, Paul Bril, Jacques Callot, Michel Corneille the Elder, Jan Asselijn...
Category

Antique 1660s French Baroque Prints

Materials

Paper

Landscape with Monuments and Figures - Etching by F. Cepparuli - 18th Century
By Francesco Cepparuli
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape With Monuments and Figures is an Etching realized by Francesco Cepparuli (1750-1767). The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (origina...
Category

Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Edward Edwards R.A. Landscape Engraving, 1790
Located in Savannah, GA
Edward Edwards R.A. (English, 1738-1806) landscape engraving, published 1790 Paper: 6 by 4 ½ inches frame: 9 ½ by 9 ¼ inches
Category

Antique 1790s British Prints

Materials

Glass, Wood, Paper

Ancient Roman Temple Architecture: An 18th Century Framed Etching by Piranesi
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Alamo, CA
This is an 18th century etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi entitled "Veduta del Tempio detto della Tosse su la Via Tiburtina, un miglio vicino a Tivoli" (View of the so-called Tem...
Category

1760s Old Masters Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Landscapes with Monuments and Figures - Etching by F. Cepparuli - 18th Century
By Francesco Cepparuli
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape With Monuments and Figures is an Etching realized by Francesco Cepparuli (1750-1767). The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (origina...
Category

Late 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

18th Century Italian Neo Classical Villa of Maecenas Black and White Engraving
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate an office or study with this antique black and white engraving. Hand colored in Italy circa 1770, the large monochromatic etching is...
Category

Antique Mid-18th Century Italian Neoclassical Drawings

Materials

Paper