Portrait of Jacob Cats, poet – engraved by Michiel Nöel Natalis

1700

Engraving on hand made laid paper, 8 1/2 x 5 7/8 inches (210 x 148 mm), thread margins. An approximately 1-inch vertical repaired tear extends into the image area at the top center ...

Heliogravure on cream laid paper, 6 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (164 x 138 mm), thread margins. Uniform toning on the recto, and scattered light foxing and various notations in purple ink and...

Etching on cream laid Arches paper, 6 9/16 x 5 1/8 inches (166 x 129 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil, lower center margin. A very good impression. Titled, dated, and inscribed in...

(after Anthonie Van Dyck) Engraving on cream laid paper, 9 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches (234 x 161 mm), full margins. Water stain throughout bottom, diagonal creases in the area of the bottom right corner, paper tape along top edge on recto. A very well inked impression. __________Flemish painter and engraver Paulus Pontius was born in Antwerp in 1603, and it was in this city that his full life would unfold. At the young age of 13, he was apprenticed to the still life painter Osias Beert, and subsequently to Lucas Vosterman, who was heavily associated with the workshop of Peter Paul Rubens. Vosterman trained Pontius in the skill of engraving, which he took to immediately, finding he had great skill at recreating paintings. Pontius was able to capture the minutiae of light and shadow found on the canvas, and mastered the ability to accurately render the subtleties of brushwork in this alternate media. His success as an engraver cemented his role in the workshop of Rubens, and in 1624, when Vosterman found himself at odds with Rubens, and left Antwerp for England, Pontius assumed his role as foremost engraver in the workshop. It was in this year that Pontius took up lodgings in Rubens's home, and continued to live there until 1631, when courtship and marriage (the first of three) brought him away. After the death of Rubens in 1640, Pontius embarked on a very successful career engraving reproductions of master works by artists including Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Jacob Jordaens, Pieter van Avont, Abraham van Diepenbeeck...

Portrait of Johannes Wtenbogaert – Remonstrant Leader, Engraving by Delff, 1632 This historic 17th-century portrait depicts Johannes Wtenbogaert (1557–1644), the influential Dutch t...

Antique engraving of Antoine de Bourbon, Count of Moret, by Pierre Lombart, ca. 1640 This fine antique portrait engraving represents Antoine de Bourbon, Count of Moret (1607–1632), ...

Portrait of Paulus Van Beresteyn after Frans Hals is original print realized by Lucien Quarante (1880-1902) Etching on paper. Good conditions with foxing. Titled on the lower centre.

Rembrandt van Rijn, After by Amand Durand, Dutch (1606 - 1669) - Portrait de Jean Wtenbogardus (B279). Year: 1878 (of original 1635), Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 9.5 x 8 in. (24.13...