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CLAUDE GELLÉE, LE LORRAIN Le Bouvier . Etching and drypoint on cream laid paper, 1636. 132x200 mm; 5 1/4x7 7/8 inches, thread margins. Mannocci's sixth state (of 6), but before publication in McCreery's 200 Etchings in 1816 (which was printed on wove paper). Trimmed on the plate mark. A very good impression with subtle gradations of tones. Mannocci 18...
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An original Rembrandt Van Rijn Etching.
1623
Original etching printed in black ink on thin laid paper bearing an unidentified coat-of arms watermark.
Signed and dated in the plate at the center of the left edge Rembrandt f. 1623.
A strong, dark 19th century impression of Bartsch’s second and final state, Usticke and New Hollstein’s third state of three, printed after the addition of extra work to the nostril at the left and to the shadows under the eyebrows, showing some touches of sulphur tinting. One of six Rembrandt etchings published by J.M. Creery in “A Collection of 200 Original Etchings,” London, 1816.
Catalog: Bartsch 266 ii/ii; Hind 111; Biorklund-Barnard 33-H; Usticke 266 iii/iii; New Hollstein 124 iii/iii.
Size: 6 5/8 x 5 5/8 inches
Jan Cornelis Sylvius (1564-1638), a preacher in the Dutch Reformed Church in Amsterdam beginning in 1610, was the legal guardian of Rembrandt’s wife-to-be, Saskia van Uylenburgh, at the time this etching was made. It was to Sylvius that Rembrandt made his appeal for Saskia’s hand. This portrait undoubtedly helped engineer the old man’s consent, for Saskia and Rembrandt married the year after its completion. His hands clasped over his Bible and his head covered by a skullcap, the early Sylvius (Rembrandt executed another, posthumously, in 1646), conveys the asceticism of this religious scholar.
This etched portrait of Sylvius is a quiet and restrained work, quite different from the majority of the painted portraits of those years. The background always plays a very limited role in early portrait studies, however, in this etching the gray of the background effectively sets off the modeling in light and dark of the face and clothing. The deep blacks of the clothing and the skullcap were achieved by biting the plate twice.
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A collection of original etchings; consisting of 17 original plates, by Cornelius Bega 1654; 25 ditto, by Claude 1660; 3 ditto, by Dominique Barriere 1651... London: J. McCreery, 1816
folio (417 x 257mm.), letterpress title-page, 197 (of 200) prints pasted to guards (usually more than one to a page), with a loose print of St Francis inserted, contemporary half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges, lacking 3 plates, binding scraped; sold as a collection of prints not subject to return
This volume contains prints by Cornelius Bega, Claude Lorrain, Dominique Barrière, Horizonti, Wenceslas Hollar, Theodor van Kessel, Peter de Laer, Rembrandt, Vivares, van Vliet, Thomas Wyck, Ruysdael, together with prints after some of these artists. It is the first of four such collections of prints (contemporary printings on wove paper from old copper plates) that were issued between 1816 and 1826, as a result of the distribution of the copper plates of the artists in the early nineteenth century. "This collection is now almost impossible to find as it is to be supposed that surviving copies have been broken up for sale of the individual prints" (Pennington, Hollar, p. liv). Copac records one copy of this edition, at the University of London Library.
The volume includes Hollar's series of costume plates of women from 1643, van Kessel's Alcune animali series of 1654, and eight of van Vliet's prints of beggars (1632).
PROVENANCE:
J.W. Brougham, inscription on title-page dated 1824
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print; album
- Museum number
- 1958,0523.5.1-194
- Title
- Series: A collection of original etchings
- Description
- An album containing 194 re-prints of original Dutch, French and Italian etchings by Rembrandt, Bega, Lorraine, Hollar and others, re-worked by McCreery; also containing copies after Rembrandt, Karel Dujardin, Ruysdael and Stefano della Bella (McCreery, London: 1816). 1632-1670
Etching - Producer name
- Print made by: Cornelis Bega
- Print made by: Claude Lorrain
- Print made by: Dominique Barrière
- Print made by: Jan Frans van Bloemen
- Print made by: Theodorus van Kessel
- Print made by: Pieter van Laer
- Print made by: Rembrandt
- Print made by: Jan van Vliet
- Print made by: Thomas Wijck
- Print made by: Jacob Isaaksz van Ruisdael
- Print made by: Francis Vivares
- After: Rembrandt
- After: Jacob Isaaksz van Ruisdael
- After: Carel Dujardin
- After: Stefano della Bella
- Print made by: John McCreery (re-work)
- Published by: John McCreery
- Production date
- 1632-1670 (c.)
- Production place
- Published in: London (England)Europe: British Isles: England: London (England)
- Materials
- paper
- Technique
- etching
- Dimensions
- Height: 414 millimetres (each sheet, approx.)
- Width: 265 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- For an impression of Rembrandt's original etching 'The agony in the garden', and comment, see F,4.162.
- Bibliographic references
- New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (158, 122, 92, 124, 196, 314, 269)
- Hind 1923 / A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings; chronologically arranged and completely illustrated (92, 104, 111, 144, 173, 268, 293)
- White & Boon 1969 / Rembrandt's Etchings: An Illustrated Critical Catalogue (19, 38, 75, 79, 262, 264, 266)
- Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700(12-34)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition name
- Purchased from: William Hanbury Saumarez Smith
- Acquisition date
- 1958
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1958,0523.5.1-194
- THE MET150
J. Kay British
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Title:A Collection of Original Etchings, Consisting of 7 by Rembrandt; 6 after Rembrant by Vivares; 25 by Claude, 1660; 3 by Dominique Barrière, 1651; 5 by Horizonti; 47 by Hollar, 1641-1647; 6 by Theodre van Kessel, 1654; 10 by Runciman; 17 by Cornelis Bega, 1654; 24 by Castiglione; 7 by Silvestre; 43 by Various Artists after Rembrandt, Du Jardin, Della Bella, etc., 200 plates
Printer:J. Kay , London
Artist:Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)
Artist:Dominique Barrière (French, Marseille 1610–1678)
Artist:Cornelis Bega (Dutch, Haarlem 1631 or 1632–1664 Haarlem)
Artist:Jan Frans van Bloemen (Flemish, Antwerp 1662–1749 Rome)
Artist:Giovanni Francesco Castiglione (Italian, Genoa 1641–1710 Genoa)
Artist:Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
Artist:Theodor van Kessel (Dutch, 1620–1660)
Artist:Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) (French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome)
Artist:Israel Silvestre (French, Nancy 1621–1691 Paris)
Artist:Alexander Runciman (British, Edinburgh, Scotland 1736–1785 Edinburgh)
Published in:London
Date:1826 or earlier
Medium:Etching
Dimensions:14 5/16 x 11 x 1 3/16 in. (36.4 x 28 x 3 cm)
Classifications:Albums, Prints
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Augustus Cleveland, transferred from the Library
Accession Number:21.36.127
Estimate: £700 - 1,000
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Lot 254
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Date: 30 Oct 2013
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