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Autoportrait avec chèvre (Self Portrait with Goat)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Chicago, IL
Signed Chagall/Marc in blue watercolor (lower right); inscribed in pencil (right margin); inscribed by another hand épreuve rehaussée (left margin)
The authenticity of this work has...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
The Great Draughtsman Sitting (Self-Portrait)
By Jacques Villon
Located in Chicago, IL
This etching is signed and numbered by the artist and was printed in an edition of 50. The references for this work are: Auberty & Perussaux 266 and Ginestet & Pouillon E. 385 II/II...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Vedute di Roma (3rd state) (Frontispiece of series, with Statue of Minerva)
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Chicago, IL
Views of Rome (Vedute di Roma): Frontispiece for the whole series, with Statue of Minerva.
A fine impression of the rare 3rd state (of seven) of this m...
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
The Column of Marcus Aurelius
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Chicago, IL
A fine impression with the address of the artist (Autore, Strada Felice) and the price (Paoli 2 1/2) as well as Hind Watermark no.3 (Fleur-de-lys-in-a-Double-Circle), all correspondi...
Category
Mid-18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
The Little Wooden Bridge
By Anthonie Waterloo
Located in Chicago, IL
A fine and rare 2nd State impression, before the address of Ottens
Category
17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
The Hermitage
By Anthonie Waterloo
Located in Chicago, IL
2nd State of three States
Category
17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
The Great Landscapes III
By Anthonie Waterloo
Located in Chicago, IL
3rd State
Watermark: Gekrontes Wappen. Similar to: Paschal Lamb on Shield, Ash & Fletcher no 29 B’a, dating this sheet to about 1651.
Category
Mid-17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
River Scene with Village and Church
By Hans Bol
Located in Chicago, IL
A very fine, well contrasted impression of the 1st State, before the addition of the number, present when the work later was included in Bol’s River Series.
Category
16th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Kermess
By Hans Bol
Located in Chicago, IL
2nd State
Watermark: Hand with Cuff and Flower (close to Briquet 11467)
Category
16th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Sounding the Hunt in the Morning
By Hans Bol
Located in Chicago, IL
2nd state
Watermark: Hand with Cuff and Flower (close to Briquet 11467)
Category
16th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
September
By Hans Bol
Located in Chicago, IL
engraving and etching by A. Collaert after Hans Bol
Watermark: Letter P (Briquet 8718, Grevenbroich 1572)
Category
16th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
February, from the Months of the Year
By Crispin De Passe
Located in Chicago, IL
engraving after Maarten de Vos (1532-1603)
Category
17th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Winter Landscape with a View of Zuylen Castle
Located in Chicago, IL
A fine 1st State impression before the addition of Vischer’s address.
etching with engraving after David Vinckboons (Malines 1576-1629 Amsterdam)
Category
17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
The Birth of Christ - With the Praying Shepherds
Located in Chicago, IL
A fine impression. With the address of P. Giffart. Mauperche produced over fifty engravings.
Category
17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Figures in a Landscape
By Gabriel Perelle
Located in Chicago, IL
A very fine impression
Category
17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Figures in a Landscape
By Gabriel Perelle
Located in Chicago, IL
A very fine impression
Category
17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Landscape with a Maiden and her Dog
By Adriaen van der Cabel
Located in Chicago, IL
A very fine impression
Category
Mid-17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Shepherd Leading his Herd
Located in Chicago, IL
A very fine impression
Category
Mid-17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Landscape with Barge
Located in Chicago, IL
signed in plate
Category
18th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Landscape with Marching Soldiers
By Jan van Huchtenburg
Located in Chicago, IL
Etching from the Six Landscapes
Category
18th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Italian Banquet
By Jacques-Philippe Le Bas
Located in Chicago, IL
A very good impression of the published state of this work after Nicholas Lancret (1690-1743), painter of “Fetes Galantes.” Mercure de France announce...
Category
18th Century Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Landscape with an Oaktree alongside a River, a Shepard Playing a Flute
By Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the Elder
Located in Chicago, IL
a very fine impression
Category
19th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Hedickhuyfen
Located in Chicago, IL
from the series of eight views of Provincial Holland and Ultrecht
Category
17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
The Old Tower as a Lighthouse
By Jan Van de Velde
Located in Chicago, IL
a very fine impression
Category
17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Ferry in Front of the Stone Bridge
By Jan Van de Velde
Located in Chicago, IL
a very fine impression
Category
17th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Landscape
By Albert Meyeringh
Located in Chicago, IL
signed in plate
Category
18th Century Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
St. Jerome in the Desert
Located in Chicago, IL
Engraving by Joannes and Lucas van Doetecum (Deventer active by 1551 - circa 1569 Haarlem) in the manner of Peter Bruegel the Elder
Category
16th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
Venus and the Rose (2nd State)
By Giorgio Mantovano Ghisi
Located in Chicago, IL
Engraving after Luca Penni
Category
16th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Christ and His Disciples Harvesting on the Sabbath
Located in Chicago, IL
Engraving after David Vinckboons (Malines 1576-1629 Amsterdam), executed by Jan van Londerseel (Antwerp c. 1570-1624/25 Rotterdam)
Category
17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Landscape with the Prophets Ahias and Jerobeam
Located in Chicago, IL
Engraving after David Vinckboons (Malines 1576-1629 Amsterdam), executed by James Van Londerseel (Antwerp c. 1570 - 1624/25 Rotterdam)
Category
17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Landscape with Pair on Wooden Bridge
By Nicolaes de Bruyn
Located in Chicago, IL
Engraving after Egidius Coninxloo (c. 1581 - 1619), executed by Nicolaes De Bruyn (Antwerp 1571 - 1652 Amsterdam)
Unidentified watermark
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Tobias and the Angel
By Hendrik Goudt
Located in Chicago, IL
References:
Bartsch, Dutuit and Hollstein 2
Category
17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Landscape with Roman Ruins
By (After) Peter Paul Rubens
Located in Chicago, IL
Engraving after Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - 1640 Antwerp), executed by Schelte Adams Bolswert (Bolsward c. 1586 -1659 Antwerp).
Bolswert was one of the major printmakers in the ...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Great Landscapes II, (4th State)
By Anthonie Waterloo
Located in Chicago, IL
Watermark:
Schellenkappe (Foolscap) Similar to Churchill no. 340
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
The Great Landscapes VI (2nd State)
By Anthonie Waterloo
Located in Chicago, IL
Watermark:
Wappen von Amsterdam mit Nebenmarke
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Mercury and Argus (2nd State)
Located in Chicago, IL
References:
Blum 38 II/IV
Robert-Dumesnil 17 I/III
Russell 49 II/IV
Mannocci 42 IIb/III
Category
17th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Les Plaisirs du Bal [before 1st State] (The Pleasures of the Ball)
By (After) Jean-Antoine Watteau
Located in Chicago, IL
Les Plaisirs du Bal (before 1st State), 1730
The Pleasures of the Ball
Pure etching only by Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin II (born Paris 1698)
495 x 640 mm.; 19 3/8 x 25 1/8 inches
...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
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Allegorical Figure, Holding a Ball
By Giorgio Mantovano Ghisi
Located in Chicago, IL
Provenance:
Edouard Schultze (Lugt 906)
References:
Bartsch 34
Boorsch & Lewis 38
Notes:
A fine impression of this engraving. Boorsch and Lewis state that this work dates from “the mid-1560s” and suggest that it was after a work by Giulio Romano...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Large Village Fair
By Cornelis Dusart
Located in Chicago, IL
The Large Village Fair, 1685
Etching
268 x 377 mm.; 10 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches
Watermark:
Arms of Amsterdam
Provenance:
H. Freiherr von und zu Aufsess (Lugt 2749)
M. Menge (Lugt 1893a).
References:
Hollstein 16
Notes:
A fine, early impression (before spots on the sky) of one of Dusart’s most powerful and fanciful works.
Concerning the provenances of this etching:
Hans von und zu Aufsess (1801-1872) was a great book lover and also a major collector of Old Master prints. He was one of the founders, in 1852, of the Germanisches Museum in Nürnberg and was that museum’s director until 1862. Mas Menge (died in 1945) was a famous violinist and also a major collector of Old Master prints and drawings.
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Singers
By Adriaen van Ostade
Located in Chicago, IL
The Singers (4th State), 1667
Etching printed with tone
240 x 190 mm.; 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches
Provenance:
W. Benoni White (Lugt 2592)
Karl Herweg (not in Lugt)
References:
Godefroy 19 IV/VII
Hollstein 19 IV/VII
Pelletier, Georgia Museum of Art, 1994: nos. 46 and 47
Notes:
A very fine impression of the rare 4th state (of seven) of this major Van Ostade.
Godefroy illustrates differences between this 4th state and the following 5th state. In the latter state, there are several “escaped lines”, going obliquely from left to right, directly above the central post. These lines are not visible in the 4th state.
Ostade was one of the most important of the printmakers within the Rembrandt circle. His prints, avoiding religious subjects, depicted beggars, peasants and artisans. Combining great artistic sensitivity with thorough mastery of the medium of etching, Ostade etchings present a unique artistic panorama of life in seventeenth-century Holland.
Pelletier (S. William Pelletier, Adrian Van Ostade...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Hunchbacked Fiddler (3rd State)
By Adriaen van Ostade
Located in Chicago, IL
The Hunchbacked Fiddler (3rd State), 1654
Etching
266 x 113 mm.; 6 1/2 x 4 7/16 inches
Watermark:
Fleur-de-lys in a Crowned Shield
References:
Godefroy 44 III/VI
Hollstein 44 III/VI
Pelletier, Adrian van Ostade...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Bearded Man with Shadowed Face, Wearing a Scarf and a Plumed Hat, (3rd state)
By Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Located in Chicago, IL
Bearded Man with Shadowed Face, Wearing a Scarf and a Plumed Hat, (3rd state), 1645-50
Etching on laid paper
152 x 184 mm.; 6 x 7 1/4 inches
References:
Bellini 45
Bartsch 52
Note...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
The Holy Family
By Fra Bonaventura Bisi
Located in Chicago, IL
The Holy Family, 1634
Etching after Parmigianino (Parma 1503 - 1540 Casal Maggiore)
305 x 230 mm.; 12 x 9 inches
References:
Nagler Monogrammisten II...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Portrait du Prince de Phalsbourg
By Jacques Callot
Located in Chicago, IL
Watermark:
Lion and Star (Lieure 38)
References:
Lieure No. 505
Notes:
An early impression of the only state of this major work.
According to Lieure (Jacques Callot: Catalogue de l...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Farnese Hercules
By Jacob Bos
Located in Chicago, IL
448 x 315 mm.; 17 5/8 x 12 1/4 inches
Watermark:
Eagle, close to Briquet 207 (Rome 1573-76)
Notes:
Bos was born in ‘s-Hertogenbosch in southern Netherlands (in French, the city’s name is “Bois-le-Duc”), and was active in Rome for a number of years from circa 1549 onward. His works were influenced by Marcantonio Raimondi (near Bologna 1480 – died between 1527 and 1534: see our no. 11).
The inspiration for this magnificent and extremely rare engraving was the famous so-called Farnese Hercules...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Nude Prints
Materials
Engraving
Hieronymus Schurstab (1st state)
By Hans Lautensack
Located in Chicago, IL
Etching
195 x 295 mm.; 7 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches
Exhibited:
Old Master Prints & Drawings: 1450 - 1850, R. S. Johnson Fine Art, December 1999: no. 21.
Reference:
Hollstein 68 I/II
No...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
L'Armoire (2nd State)
By Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Located in Chicago, IL
The Armoire
Etching
340 x 469 mm.; 13 3/8 x 18 1/8 inches
Reference:
Inventaire 18e siècle 9: 289-90, No. 22
Wildenstein 1956, cat. No. 23, State II/IV
Regency to Empire, 1...
Category
18th Century Rococo Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Christ and the Little Saint John Playing with the Lamb (2nd State)
By Christoffel Jegher
Located in Chicago, IL
Woodcut after Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - 1640 Antwerp)
337 x 451 mm.; 13 1/4 x 17 3/4 inches
Provenance:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Duplicate stamp on verso...
Category
17th Century Baroque Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Défaite de la cavalerie Turque (1st State)
By Jacques Callot
Located in Chicago, IL
Defeat of the Turkish Cavalry (1st State)
From: The Life of Ferdinando de'Medici
Engraving
224 x 300 mm.; 8 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches
Reference:
Lieure No. 154
Meaume No. 541
Ru...
Category
17th Century Baroque More Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Giant Wheel (Carceri IX), (2nd State)
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Chicago, IL
This is a second state impression from three states.
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Interior Prints
Materials
Engraving, Etching
The Temple of Antoninus and Faustina (Veduta del Tempio di Antonio e Faustina)
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Chicago, IL
This is a 3rd state impression (from seven). This impression includes the address of the artist and the price that he was charging at the time, which were removed from the plate in ...
Category
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
View of the Tiber with Country Landscape
By Jan Dirksz Both
Located in Chicago, IL
Etching on paper with Schriftband watermark.
Reference: Bartsch 7 III/IV (from VI).
A very fine, early impression. Printed with the name of the artist, but before the addition...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
The Temptation of Christ by the Devil (2nd State)
By Christoffel Jegher
Located in Chicago, IL
Woodcut after Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577-1640 Antwerp)
Reference:
Le Blanc 6
Hollstein 6 II/III
Notes:
1. A very fine impression of the 2nd state (of three) of this majo...
Category
17th Century Baroque More Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Portrait of E.D.
By Jacques Villon
Located in Chicago, IL
This impression is signed and numbered 24/25. The references for this work are: Auberty & Perussaux 191 and Ginestet & Pouillon E. 277.
This is one of Jacques Villon’s great 1913...
Category
1910s Cubist Portrait Prints
Materials
Drypoint
The Second Tournament with the Tapestry of Samson and the Lion
By Lucas Cranach the Elder
Located in Chicago, IL
Watermark:
Bull's Head with Serpent and Cross (Briquet 1575, dated 1492 by Briquet)
Provenance:
Martin Folkes (Lugt 1034)
Reverend G. L. Blake (Lugt 1172)
Reference:
Bartsc...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Northern Renaissance More Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Bellos Consejos (Wonderful Advice)
By Francisco Goya
Located in Chicago, IL
An impression from the 1st edition published in 1799, the only edition published during Goya's lifetime.
References: Los Caprichos Plate 15; Delteil 52; Harris 50 III.1
Prado ...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Femme au Lys (Woman with Lily)
By Paul Guiramand
Located in Chicago, IL
This lithograph comes from an edition of 110, it is signed and numbered.
Paul Guiramand, painter, sculptor and lithographer, was born in 1926 in Saint-Quentin in northern France. I...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Cheval Bleu (The Blue Horse)
By Albert Zavaro
Located in Chicago, IL
Edition of 110, signed and numbered lower right
Category
1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Le Figuier d'Antibes
By Paul Guiramand
Located in Chicago, IL
This lithograph comes from an edition of 120 and it is signed and numbered.
Guiramand’s works all have one element in common: the artist’s extraordinary sensitivity and ability to a...
Category
1970s Contemporary Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Basilica of Constantine
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Chicago, IL
A very fine impression of the 3rd State, still with the address and price which were eliminated in the following 4th state. The presence of the address and price confirms that this ...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
