Emanuel von Baeyer
Dutch Prints and Drawings from the 16th- to- late 18th centuries
Dutch Prints and Drawings from the 16th- to- late 18th centuries
Frans Floris, Johann Theodor de Bry, Nicolaes de Bruyn, Willem Basse, Anthonie Waterloo, Jan Baptist Herregouts, Gerard Hoet, Johannes de Mare, Bernard Picart
Emanuel von Baeyer Cabinet is pleased to launch a new online exhibition featuring over forty prints and drawing by Dutch and Flemish artists from the 16th to the late 18th centuries. We present an extensive display of some truly rare prints and drawings from the mid-sixteenth century, when the Italian influence on the Dutch and Flemish artists was the most prominent, to Rudolfine Mannerism prints of late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Works depicting aspects of the natural world and everyday life were so characteristic of the Dutch Golden Age that, during the seventeenth century, the Dutch stilleven and landschap were adopted into English as "still life" and "landscape." We are pleased to include in our exhibition a selection of landscape and genre prints and drawings from the 17th century. Additionally, some rare prints by lesser-known Dutch artists, who were essential in continuing Netherlandish printmaking traditions, are included as well.
Among the highlights of the exhibitions are a recently rediscovered drawing by Frans Floris; a proof impression by Raphael Sadeler I, in unknown first state; a complete set of six plates, all first state impressions, by Anthonie Waterloo; a highly finished drawing by Cornelis Visscher, for the principal figures for Visscher’s monumental print the Pancake Woman; and a rare satire print of the infamous Mississippi scheme - one of the earliest examples and images of an economic bubble.
Please visit to view the full exhibition.
Image Credit:
Detail: Nicolaes de Bruyn, A fête champêtre dans le parc devant un château,1601. Engraving. Size of sheet: 44.3 x 66.5 cm.
"By illuminating an interior world as much as illustrating an exterior one, it [Dutch art] moves back and forth between morals and matter, between the durable and the ephemeral, the concrete and the imaginary, in a way that was peculiarly Netherlandish."
Simon Schama, The Embarrassment of Riches, 1987, p.10.
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Detail: Bernard Picart, Monument consacré a la posterité , 1720. Engraving and etching. Size of sheet: 31.8 x 43.8 cm.
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Detail: Gerard Hoet I, Joseph Interpreting Pharaoh's Dreams. Pen and brown ink, grey wash. Size of sheet: 28.8 x 40.7 cm.
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Detail: Anthonie Waterloo, Landscape with a dog drinking from a stream. Etching. Size of sheet: 30.2 x 24.2 cm.
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Saint John the Baptist and Saint John the Evangelist surrounded by Angels
Jan Baptist Herregouts
Size of sheet: 25.5 x 18.3 cm.
Etching. Inscribed in brown ink Victites St Joanis Bapt. Watermark A B (Heawood 268, c. 1680).
C. G. Boerner, 1990, no. 27.
Literature: Wurzbach 1; Hollstein 1. Very fine impression with plate tone. One of only five etchings by the artist. Rare print.
£1,500.-
Gerard Hoet I
Joseph Interpreting Pharaoh's Dreams
Size of sheet: 28.8 x 40.7 cm.
Pen and brown ink, grey wash. Framing lines in brown ink.
Two areas excised by the artist (upper left and far right) and redrawn sections carefully integrated. Inscribed on the backing sheet: ‘Joseph explique les songes à Putiphar’.
£5,000.-
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Johannes de Mare
St Nicholas Feast
1829
Size of sheet: 46 x 34.1 cm.
Steel engraving on chine collé. After Jan Steen (1626-1679).
Very fine proof impression. LITERATURE: Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon : auf Grund archivalischer Forschungen bearbeitet : mit mehr als 3000 Monogrammen, p. 100, cat.nr. 2.
£1,500.-
Bernard Picart
Monument consacré a la posterité en memoire de la folie incroyable de la XX année du XVIII siècle
1720
Size of sheet: 31.8 x 43.8 cm.
Engraving and etching.
The present print satirizes the infamous Mississippi scheme started by John Law (1671-1729), a Scottish economist who served as Controller General of Finances under the Duke of Orleans. Law set up and directed the Mississippi Company, funded by the Banque Royale. Its chaotic collapse has been compared to the 17th-century tulip mania in Holland. The Mississippi bubble coincided with the South Sea bubble in England, which allegedly took ideas from it. Combined together with a contemporary copy of this print (engraving, size of sheet: 26.3 x 37.8 cm).
£3,000.-
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