MATHAM, JAN (2 Ergebnisse)

Michelangelo Buonarroti / Jacob Matham (illustrator). This print shows a view on a standing man near a cross, only wearing a loincloth: Jesus with instruments of the Passion. The engravings of the Paradigmata, like those of Francois Perrier, helped disseminate the classical ideal throughout Europe. They were used as paradigms for artists of the period and well beyond.Made by Jan de Bisschop after Michelangelo Buonarroti / Jacob Matham .Medium: Etching / engraving on handlaid (verge) paper.Sheet size: 23 x 36.5 cm (9.06 x 14.37 inch). Image size: 11.3 x 23.5 cm. (4.45 x 9.25 inch).RELIGION-JESUS-STANDING MAN-CROSS-CLASSICAL POSTURE-PASSION | RBOS-A10-36BACKGROUND INFORMATIONThis attractive print originates from: "Paradigmata Graphics Variorum Artificum", published in Amsterdam by Nicolas Visscher, 1671.Biography engraver: Jan de Bisschop (ca. 1628-1671) engraver of the Dutch school. Bisschop had a law practice in the Hague where he also founded an art school and a publishing house. His influential circle of friends included the mathematician and philosopher Rene Descartes and the artist Constantijn Huygens. All original engravings bear the monogram "JE" , which denotes "Jan Episcopius, "Epicopius" being the Latinzation of his name which is 'Bishop' in English.Biography artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti (14751564) was an Italian painter, sculpturer, architect and poet. This print was also after Jacob Matham (15 October 1571 20 January 1631), of Haarlem, who was an engraver and pen-draftsman. . Condition: good, given age. Brownish edges. Creases. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Allegory of the month of June. Beautiful landscape with farmers shaving their flock of sheep. Two shepherds in the left foreground are washing the animals in the river. Towards the right, beyond a large tree, a shepherd on the horse leads the animals back on the fields.Signed blow on the right: 'Iohan Wild. Invent And Stockus sculpsit Hhondius excudit'. Four lines of Latin text below: 'Junius, en, cernens fegetis. nos Ira potes' in center: 'IUNIUS'.Interestingly, on the verso, are traces of another impression that had still wet ink when our plate was stocked on the top of the previous.Numbered on the bottom left corner: 6. Engraving on laid paper, trimmed to plate; total: 289 x 423 mm; state II/4; watermark with three lilies in shield; Hollstein (Hondius) not documented but other plates of the set nr. 72-75. Also Orenstein, Nadine Monica: Hendrick Hondius and the business of prints in seventeenth-century Holland, p. 186, cat.nr. 263-266. The paper is sometimes thinner, yet very beautiful and rare impression.