Old Masters Prints and Multiples
OLD MASTERS
Encompassing centuries of change in Europe between 1300 and 1800, from booms of prosperity to bloody revolutions, Old Masters describes a wide range of artists. The informal term was derived from the title of an artist who trained in a guild long enough to become a master, such as Leonardo da Vinci, who studied in a Florence painters’ guild. However, Old Masters paintings, prints and other art is now used to refer to work made by any artist with a high level of skill in painting, drawing, sculpture or printmaking who worked during this era.
The 15th century’s expansive trade and commerce spread culture across borders. A vibrant period of art emerged, bolstered by studies of anatomy and nature that influenced a new visual realism. From Raphael and Michelangelo in the Renaissance to Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer in the Dutch Golden Age, artists expressed emotion, naturalism, color and light in new ways. El Greco and Paolo Veronese were leaders in the dramatic style of Mannerism, while Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens demonstrated the movement and meticulous detail of Baroque art.
Historically, most attention was concentrated on male artists, but recent research and exhibitions have elevated the impactful work of women such as Rachel Ruysch and Artemisia Gentileschi. In late-18th-century France, female artists like Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun were prominent names. Nevertheless, access to the academies and guilds was highly restricted for women, and even those able to establish practices were expected to adhere to portraits and still lifes rather than the grand history paintings being created by men.
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Style: Old Masters
Funeral Procession among the Indigenouses - by G. Pivati - 1746-1751
Located in Roma, IT
Funeral Procession among the indigenouses - From “New Scientific and Curious Dictionnary concerning the Sacred and the Profane
Etchings, Hand-Water...
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1740s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Cacciatori di Orléans (Orléans Hunters - Carabinieri) - Lithograph Mid 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Title at the center of the lower margin. In very good conditions except lightly browned and damaged in the higher and lower margins.
Interesting colored lithograph which describes t...
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Mid-19th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
Narciso and Echo - B/W Etching after Claude Lorrain - 1815
Located in Roma, IT
Beautiful Artist’s Proof, representing the myth of Narcissius and the nymph Eco, draw by "the Metamorphosis" by Publio Ovidio Nasone.
This aquatint, by Ludovico Caracciolo (engraver...
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1810s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Etching, Aquatint
Androne della Villa di Mecenate a Tivoli - Etching by L. Rossini - 1824
Located in Roma, IT
Androne della Villa di Mecenate a Tivoli, per cui passava l'antica Via Consolare Tiburtina
Image dimensions: 50x60 cm.
From the collection “Le antichità de’ contorni di Roma (...)” a...
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1820s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Corpo Reale dè Veterani ed Invalidi
Located in Roma, IT
Title at the center of the lower margin. Signed on the plate "Petrone." in the lower left margin. "Con permis", in lower-right "Lit. D. Festa, 1836". In very good conditions except ...
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1830s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Lithograph
18th century landscape etching pastoral house nature scene detailed ink trees
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Figure by the Cottage in Forest" is an original etching by John Thomas Smith. The miniature landscape shows a pair of cottages in the woods, nestled back into the trees. A river flo...
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1790s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Ink, Etching
17th century etching black and white figurative character print expressive
By Jan Gillisz van Vliet
Located in Milwaukee, WI
Jan Gillisz van Vliet (1605–1668) was a Dutch Golden Age artist and student of Rembrandt. He worked with Rembrandt between 1628 and 1637, inspired by his master's work. Like Rembrandt, van Vliet made a series of beggar figures, though often with a greater degree of satire and expressiveness. For example, this image of a rat catcher...
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1630s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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A Drunken Night Cap
By Jan van der Bruggen
Located in New York, NY
(After) JAN VAN DER BRUGGEN (Brussels c1649 1690 Paris), A Drunken Night Cap, Wine is a Mocker, mezzotint, c. 1720, with artist's name Mieris lower left in t...
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1720s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Mezzotint
'The Smoker (Le Fumeur)' original etching by Cornelis-Pietersz Bega
Located in Milwaukee, WI
'The Smoker (Le Fumeur)' is an original etching by the celebrated Dutch painter and printmaker Cornelis-Pietersz Bega. It presents a genre scene of the type Bega was best known for: Bega's principal subjects were genre representations of taverns, domestic interiors and villages. He depicted nursing mothers, prostitutes, drunks, gamblers and fools such as quack doctors and alchemists. In this case, he shows a man seated on a chair with his foot on a flat stool and holding a smoking pipe. For Bega, this representation was more of a caricature than it was an image of a specific person, and such genre scenes would have held allegorical and symbolic meaning for the seventeenth-century viewer. During the seventeenth century, the Dutch of all levels of society consumed tobacco and alcohol, and these were an important part of the Dutch economy and a major source of wealth. At the same time, however, moralists and ministers sought to curb intoxication: they openly described drinking and smoking as sinful, immoral, and a general threat to one’s reputation. This paradox is reflected in prints such as this, which inherently carry the national pride of the Dutch economy alongside a moral warning in a print that could be just as easily consumed and collected.
2.5 x 2.25 inches, print
12.38 x 10.38 inches, frame
Framed to conservation standards using archival materials including 100 percent rag matting and mounting materials. Housed in a gold finish Spanish-style wood moulding.
Overall good and stable condition; margins cut to plate; some wrinkling in the corners from previous mounting; housed in a new custom frame.
Cornelis Bega was born into prosperous circumstances. His mother, Maria Cornelis, inherited half the estate (gold, silver, paintings, drawings and prints) and all of the red chalk drawings of her father, Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem, a renowned Mannerist artist. Bega's father was Pieter Jansz Begijn (d 1648), a gold and silversmith.
Like other family members, Bega was probably Catholic. Houbraken's claim that Bega studied with Adriaen van Ostade is likely to be correct; this was probably before 24 April 1653, when Bega joined Vincent Laurentsz. van der Vinne in Frankfurt for a journey through Germany, Switzerland and France. Bega had returned to Haarlem by 1 September 1654, at which time he joined the Guild of St Luke; he was already a competent draughtsman, as indicated by his first extant dated work, Interior with a Nursing Mother (1652; Frankfurt am Main, Städel. Kstinst.), and by a remarkable double portrait (Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum) drawn by him and Leendert van der Cooghen in 1654.
Bega painted, drew, etched and made counterproofs in a wide variety of materials on different types of small-scale supports. He may have been the first Dutch artist to make monotypes, but this remains controversial. Approximately 160 paintings, 80 drawings and six monotypes by Bega have been catalogued, as well as around 34 etchings.
Bega's principal subjects were genre representations of taverns, domestic interiors and villages. He depicted nursing mothers, prostitutes, drunks, smokers, gamblers and fools such as quack doctors and alchemists. Less common subjects include the ridiculed or pestered woman, as in Two Figures and Mother with a Spirits Bottle (c. 1662; Gouda, Stedel, Museum Catharina Gasthuis) and The Inn (etching), as well as witty satires on traditional scenes of middle-class music-makers, such as the Music Lesson (1663; Paris, Petit Palace).
Bega's early paintings, such as the Weaver's Family (c. 1652; St Petersburg, Hermitage), are freely executed, dark and coarse, recalling the many-figured peasant subjects of van Ostade. Between c. 1660 and 1664 he began to paint genre scenes with fewer figures, which are finely articulated, colourful and psychologically expressive, for example Two Men Singing (1662; Dublin, N.G.). His exquisite, late fijnschilderen ('fine painting') manner, evident in The Alchemist (1663; Malibu, Getty Museum), compares well with that of Gerrit Dou.
As a draughtsman Bega is noted for his single-figure studies, executed mainly in black and white chalk on blue paper or red chalk on white paper. None of the studies, which were drawn naer het leven (from life), seem to relate to a painting or etching. Bega traded drawings or shared models with other artists of the Haarlem school, including van der Cooghen, Gerrit Berckheyde, Dirck Helmbreker and Cornelis Visscher. These artists drew chalk figure studies in a very similar style, characterised by regular and precise parallel shading and well-defined forms; their drawings, especially those of Bega and Berckheyde, have been frequently confused. Unlike the realistic figure studies, Bega's etchings depict interiors with figures or single figures in the manner of van Ostade; the compositions, often with masterful chiaroscuro effects, reflect most closely the paintings of the 1650s.
Bega is likely to have remained in Haarlem, where he paid dues to the Guild in 1661. He probably died from the plague; fees for his expensive funeral at St. Bavo's were paid on 30 August 1664. Among the artists he influenced were Thomas Wijck, Jan Steen, Richard Brakenburg (1650-1702) and Cornelis Dusart. Painters such as R. Oostrzaen ( fl ?1656) and Jacob Toorenvliet...
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17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Etching
17th century etching black and white figures scene
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Singer" is an original etching by Cornelis-Pietersz Bega. It depicts a performer and onlookers. Publisher: Pearce #50.
4" x 3" art
16 1/2" x 13 1/2" frame
Cornelis Pietersz Be...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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'Near Mrs. Teshmakers, Edmonton' original etching by John Thomas Smith
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present is one of the many prints John Thomas Smith produced of English cottages and vernacular architecture. This example, a view of a cottage in Edmonton, is closely related to...
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1790s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Etching
17th century engraving black and white landscape ancient building scene
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...
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1650s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Paper, Ink, Engraving
Sacrifice a Priape, Heliogravure by Jacopo de' Barbari
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jacopo de' Barbari, After by Amand Durand, Italian/Belgian (1450 - 1516) - Sacrifice a Priape, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 9.25 x 6.75 in. (23.5 x 17.15 cm), Printer: Amand Durand...
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Judith Tenant la Tete d'Holopherne, Heliogravure by Baccio Baldini
Located in Long Island City, NY
Baccio Baldini, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1436 - 1487) - Judith Tenant la Tete d'Holopherne, Year: Printed: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 7 x 6 in. (17.78 x 15.24 cm), P...
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Le Sauveur Descendu de la Croix, Old Masters Etching after Jean Cousin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jean Cousin, After by Amand Durand, French (1495 - 1560) - Le Sauveur Descendu de la Croix, Year: Printed 1878, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 7.5 x 12 in. (19.05 x 30.48 cm), Printer...
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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The Holy Family, 1509, Old Masters Etching by Jacopo de' Barbari
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jacopo de' Barbari, After by Amand Durand, French (1831 - 1905) - The Holy Family, 1509, Year: circa 1878, Medium: Heliogravure on laid paper, Size: 6.75 x 8 in. (17.15 x 20.32 cm...
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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La Patene, Heliogravure by Maitre E.S.
Located in Long Island City, NY
Maitre E.S., After by Amand Durand, German (1420 - 1468) - La Patene, Year: circa 1878, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 8 x 7.5 in. (20.32 x 19.05 cm), Printer: Amand Durand, Descripti...
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Le Sort de la Langue Mechante, Heliogravure by Nicoletto da Modena
Located in Long Island City, NY
Nicoletto da Modena, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1490 - 1569) - Le Sort de la Langue Mechante, Year: 1873, Medium: Heliogravure on laid paper, Size: 12 x 8.25 in. (30.48 x 20....
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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L'homme et la femme aux boules, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - L'homme et la femme aux boules, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 6 x 4 in. (15.24 x 10.16 cm), Printer:...
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Lucrece, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - Lucrece, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 8.75 x 5.25 in. (22.23 x 13.34 cm), Printer: Amand Durand, De...
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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L'homme portant la base d'une colonne, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - L'homme portant la base d'une colonne, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 8.25 x 4.5 in. (20.96 x 11.43 c...
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Saint Paul prechant a Athenes, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - Saint Paul prechant a Athenes, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 11.25 x 14 in. (28.58 x 35.56 cm), Prin...
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Venus Accroupie, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - Venus Accroupie, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 9.25 x 6 in. (23.5 x 15.24 cm), Printer: Amand Durand...
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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La Sainte Famille, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - La Sainte Famille, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 12 x 8.5 in. (30.48 x 21.59 cm), Printer: Amand Dur...
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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La Temperance, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - La Temperance, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 5.5 x 3 in. (13.97 x 7.62 cm), Printer: Amand Durand, D...
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La Vendange d'apres Raphael, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - La Vendange d'apres Raphael, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 8 x 6 in. (20.32 x 15.24 cm), Printer: Am...
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Venus sortie du Bain, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - Venus sortie du Bain, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 7 x 5 in. (17.78 x 12.7 cm), Printer: Amand Dura...
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Notre Dame a l'escalier, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - Notre Dame a l'escalier, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 9.75 x 13.75 in. (24.77 x 34.93 cm), Printer:...
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l'Homme montrant une hache a une femme, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - l'Homme montrant une hache a une femme, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure on Laid Paper, Size: 8 x 5.25 in. (20....
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Pallas, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - Pallas, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure on Laid Paper, Size: 11.5 x 7.25 in. (29.21 x 18.42 cm), Printer: Ama...
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Jeune femme arrosant une plante, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - Jeune femme arrosant une plante, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure on Laid Paper, Size: 8.25 x 5 in. (20.96 x 1...
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Portrait du Titien, Heliogravure by Agostino Carracci
By Agostino Carracci
Located in Long Island City, NY
Agostino Carracci, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1557 - 1602) - Portrait du Titien, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 13.25 x 9.5 in. (33.66 x 24.13 cm), Printer: Amand Durand, Descri...
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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La Vierge au berceau, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - La Vierge au berceau, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 10.5 x 7 in. (26.67 x 17.78 cm), Printer: Amand ...
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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La descente de croix, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - La descente de croix, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 16.75 x 11.5 in. (42.55 x 29.21 cm), Printer: Am...
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Jean Duvet composant les dessins pour l'apocalypse de Saint Jean, Heliogravure
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jean Duvet, After by Amand Durand, French (1485 - 1562) - Jean Duvet composant les dessins pour l'apocalypse de Saint Jean, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 10.5 x 7 in. (26.67 x 17.78 ...
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1870s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Les Deux Femmes Romaines, Old Masters Etching by Francesco Primaticcio
Located in Long Island City, NY
Francesco Primaticcio, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1504 - 1570) - Les Deux Femmes Romaines, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 8.25 x 5 in. (20.96 x 12.7 cm), Printer: Amand Durand, ...
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Les Trois Morts et les Trois Vifs, Heliogravure by Master of the Housebook
Located in Long Island City, NY
Master of the Housebook, After by Amand Durand, German - Les Trois Morts et les Trois Vifs, Year: 1878, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 4.5 x 7.75 in. (11.43 x 19.69 cm), Printer: Aman...
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Les Chanteurs, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - Les Chanteurs, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 7.5 x 4.5 in. (19.05 x 11.43 cm), Printer: Amand Durand...
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La philosophie, d'apres Raphael, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - La philosophie, d'apres Raphael, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 8 x 6.25 in. (20.32 x 15.88 cm), Prin...
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Amadee, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - Amadee, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 4.5 x 4.5 in. (11.43 x 11.43 cm), Printer: Amand Durand, Descr...
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Portrait de Pierre Aretin, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - Portrait de Pierre Aretin, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 9 x 6 in. (22.86 x 15.24 cm), Printer: Aman...
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Didon d'apres Raphael, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - Didon d'apres Raphael, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 7 x 5.25 in. (17.78 x 13.34 cm), Printer: Amand...
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Venus et l'Amour II, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - Venus et l'Amour II, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 8.5 x 3.75 in. (21.59 x 9.53 cm), Printer: Amand ...
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L'homme endormi a l'entree d'un bois, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - L'homme endormi a l'entree d'un bois, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 4.25 x 3.25 in. (10.8 x 8.26 cm)...
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Adam et Eve Chasses du Paradis, Heliogravure by Marcantonio Raimondi
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - Adam et Eve Chasses du Paradis, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 8.25 x 6 in. (20.96 x 15.24 cm), Print...
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La porte de femmes blanches a Utrecht, Etching by Herman Saftleven
By Herman Saftleven
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Herman Saftleven, After by Amand Durand, Dutch (1580 - 1670) - La porte de femmes blanches a Utrecht, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 11.5 x 9.5 in. (29.21 x 24.13 cm), Printer...
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Late 19th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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18th century landscape etching pastoral house nature scene detailed ink trees
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Near Mill Hill, Gravesend" is an original etching by John Thomas Smith. It depicts a cottage and farmstead with a few small figures. The piece is titled on ...
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1790s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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17th century etching black and white indoors table figures scene
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Conversation" is an original etching by Cornelis-Pietersz Bega. It depicts three men conversing in a dark interior. Publisher: Pearce #43.
3" x 2 1/4" art
12 3/4" x 11 5/8" fra...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Louvre, Aile Denon, La Victoire de Samothrace, Paris, France
Located in New York City, NY
Edition of 9.
Signature label. Framed work.
A prominent French architectural photographer, Jean-Christophe Ballot’s body of work concerns itself with space: be it cities with urb...
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Early 2000s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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17th century etching black and white indoor dramatic figures scene
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Meeting" is an original etching by Cornelis-Pietersz Bega. It depicts a confrontation between two groups of figures. Publisher: Pearce #48.
2 3/4" x 2 3/4" art
10 1/4" x 10 3/8...
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17th century etching black and white figure table tobacco pipe scene
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Pipe Smoker" is an original etching by Cornelis-Pietersz Bega. It depicts a man sitting at a table with his pipe. Publisher: Pearce #38.
3 1/2" x 3 1/4" art
13 5/8" x 11 3/4" f...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Shere Mill Pond
Located in Missouri, MO
Shere Mill Pond, No. II (large plate). 1860. Etching and drypoint. Schneiderman 37.v/ix. 7 x 13 1/8 (sheet 10 3/4 x 16 3/8). This state is prior to publication in Études à l'Eau-Forte. Illustrated: Keppel The Golden Age of Engraving; Print Collector's Quarterly 1 (1911): 18; : Guichard, British Etchers, 1850-1940. A rich, brilliant proof with drypoint burr printed on white laid paper. Signed in pencil.
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Shere Mill Pond, No. II was one of the most highly praised landscape prints of the etching revival. An impression was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1861 under Haden’s pseudonym, H. Dean. Francis Seymour Haden used this anagram of his own name early in his career as an artist, in order to retain his anonymity and preserve his professional reputation as a surgeon.
Biography:
Sir Francis Seymour Haden (16 September 1818 - 1 June 1910), was an English surgeon, best known as an etcher.
He was born in London, his father, Charles Thomas Haden, being a well-known doctor and lover of music. He was educated at Derby School, Christ's Hospital, and University College, London, and also studied at the Sorbonne, Paris, where he took his degree in 1840. He was admitted as a member of the College of Surgeons in London in 1842.
In 1843-1844, with his friends Duval, Le Cannes and Colonel Guibout, he travelled in Italy and made his first sketches from nature. Haden attended no art school and had no art teachers, but between 1845 and 1848 he studied portfolios of prints belonging to a second-hand dealer named Love, who had a shop in Bunhill Row, the old Quaker quarter of London. Arranging the prints in chronological order, he studied the works of the great original engravers, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas van Leyden and Rembrandt. These studies, besides influencing his original work, led to his important monograph on the etched work of Rembrandt. By lecture and book, and with the aid of the memorable exhibition at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1877, he tried to give a true reflection of Rembrandt's work, giving a nobler idea of the master's mind by taking away from the list of his works many dull and unseemly plates that had long been included in the lists. His reasons were founded upon the results of a study of the master's works in chronological order, and are clearly expressed in his monograph, The Etched Work of Rembrandt critically reconsidered, privately printed in 1877, and in The Etched Work of Rembrandt True and False (1895).
Haden's printmaking was invigorated by his much younger brother-in-law, James Whistler, at the Haden home in Sloane Street in 1855. A press was installed there and for a while Haden and Whistler collaborated on a series of etchings of the Thames. The relationship and project did not last.
Haden followed the art of original etching with such vigour that he became not only the foremost British exponent of that art but brought about its revival in England. His strenuous efforts and perseverance, aided by the secretarial ability of Sir WR Drake, resulted in the foundation of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. As president he ruled the society with a strong hand from its first beginnings in 1880.
Notwithstanding his study of the old masters of his art, Haden's own plates were very individual, and are particularly noticeable for a fine original treatment of landscape subjects, free and open in line, clear and well divided in mass, and full of a noble and dignified style of his own. Even when working from a picture his personality dominates the plate, as for example in the large plate he etched after J.M.W. Turner's "Calais Pier," which is a classical example of what interpretative work can do in black and white. Of his original plates, more than 250 in number, one of the most notable was the large "Breaking up of the Agamemnon."
An early plate, rare and most beautiful, is "Thames Fisherman". "Mytton Hall" is broad in treatment, and a fine rendering of a shady avenue of yew trees leading to an old manor-house in sunlight. "Sub Tegmine" was etched in Greenwich Park in 1859; and "Early Morning--Richmond", full of the poetry and freshness of the hour, was done, according to Haden, actually at sunrise. One of the rarest and most beautiful of his plates is "A By-Road in Tipperary"; "Combe Bottom" is another; and "Shere Mill Pond" (both the small study and the larger plate), "Sunset in Ireland," "Penton Hook," "Grim Spain" and "Evening Fishing, Longparish," are also notable examples of his genius. A catalogue of his works was begun by Sir William Drake and completed by Harrington in 1880. During later years Haden began to practise the sister art...
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Late 19th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
"St. Martin's Abbey" and "Lady's Chappel" from "Buck's Antiquities" /// British
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Samuel and Nathaniel Buck (English, 1696-1779) and (?-1759/1774)
Title: "St. Martin's Abbey" (Plate 333) and "Lady's Chappel" (Plate 331)
Portfolio: Buck's Antiquities or Venerable Remains of Above 400 Castles, Monasteries, Palaces in England and Wales
Year: 1726-1739
Medium: Set of Two Original Engravings on watermarked laid paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Unknown
Publisher: Robert Sayer, London, UK
Reference: Lowndes page 303-304; Upcott page 33
Sheet size (each): approx. 11.13" x 18.25"
Image size (platemark) (each): approx. 7.5" x 14.5"
Condition: "St. Martin's Abbey" has a minor crease to upper left corner and repaired edge wear to lower right corner. "Lady's Chappel" has faint toning to sheet and minor soiling in margins. They are both otherwise strong impressions in excellent condition
Notes:
Comes from Samuel and Nathaniel Buck's three volume portfolio "Buck's Antiquities" or "Venerable Remains of Above 400 Castles, Monasteries, Palaces in England and Wales" (1726-1739), which consists of 428 engravings. Both "St. Martin's Abbey" and "Lady's Chappel" have unidentified watermarks in the center of their sheets. They both also have "Liverpool Free Public Library" chop mark/blind stamps at bottom center of their sheets. Old price pencil inscribed in margins.
Saint Martin's Abbey is a community of Roman Catholic Benedictine monks who follow the Rule of St Benedict...
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1720s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio
"Knaresborough Castle" and "Sawley Abbey" from "Buck's Antiquities" /// British
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Samuel and Nathaniel Buck (English, 1696-1779) and (?-1759/1774)
Title: "Knaresborough Castle" (Plate 330) and "Sawley Abbey" (Plate ...
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1720s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
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Laid Paper, Engraving, Intaglio
17th century etching black and white seascape scene boat waves ocean clouds sky
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"La Tempete" is an original etching by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellee). This is Claude's earliest dated etching (1630). The work depicts a storm-tossed sea with ships on the verge of ...
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Early 17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Two Trophies With a Cuirass Lower Left
By Enea Vico
Located in New York, NY
Enea Vico (1523-1567) engraving, Two Trophies With a Cuirass Lower Left, 1550, Bartsch 449, with the name of the publisher Ant[onio] Lafreri at bottom, first state (of 2) before numb...
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16th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Two Trophies with a Breast Plate and a Ram's Head
By Enea Vico
Located in New York, NY
Enea Vico (1523-1567 engraving, Two Trophies With a Breast Plate and a Ram’s Head, 1550, Bartsch 447, with the name of the publisher Ant[onio] Lafreri at bottom, before numbers. Goo...
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16th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Death Appearing to a Wedded Couple from an Open Grave
Located in New York, NY
REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN
1606 Leiden Amsterdam 1669
Death Appearing to a Wedded Couple from an Open Grave 1639
drypoint and etching; 109 x 78 mm
Bartsch 109, White/Boon only s...
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1630s Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
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