Hercules and Iole
| Reference: | S5531 |
| Author | Samuel Bottschild |
| Year: | 1693 |
| Measures: | 204 x 288 mm |
€380.00
| Reference: | S5531 |
| Author | Samuel Bottschild |
| Year: | 1693 |
| Measures: | 204 x 288 mm |
€380.00
Description
Etching, 1693, printed on contemporary laid paper, trimmed to the platemark, very good condition.
Lettered at lower right: 'Sam. Bottschildt inv. et fecit' and at lower centre 'Hercules et Jobe'.
Hercules and Iole seated in front of a window; Iole at right holding the club and lion skin, Hercules at left poiting to a mirror; in foreground Cupid holding a spindle; in right background view of a garden with a parrot sitting on a vase.
From the 'Opera Varia Historica Poetica', published in Nuremberg by Johann Christoph Weigel, 1693.
The opera contains almost the entire oeuvre of the artist and consists of 48 etchings, mostly designs for ceiling pieces.
Literature
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Le Blanc 8; Hollestein 1-48.
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Samuel Bottschild (Sangerhausen 1641- Dresda 1707)
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German painter, draughtsman, graphic artist and writer on art. born in Sangerhausen in Thuringen and from an important artists family from the 16th and 17th century. He was a son and pupil of Andreas Bottschild II (c. 1590-1657), a painter and engraver, who decorated churches in Sangerhausen. Samuel had further training with his brother Johann Andreas Bottschild (b 1630; d after 1670), with whom he went to Saxony. In 1658-61 they worked jointly on gallery paintings of 19 scenes from the Passion in the Dorfkirche at Hohnstädt, near Leipzig.
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Literature
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Le Blanc 8; Hollestein 1-48.
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Samuel Bottschild (Sangerhausen 1641- Dresda 1707)
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German painter, draughtsman, graphic artist and writer on art. born in Sangerhausen in Thuringen and from an important artists family from the 16th and 17th century. He was a son and pupil of Andreas Bottschild II (c. 1590-1657), a painter and engraver, who decorated churches in Sangerhausen. Samuel had further training with his brother Johann Andreas Bottschild (b 1630; d after 1670), with whom he went to Saxony. In 1658-61 they worked jointly on gallery paintings of 19 scenes from the Passion in the Dorfkirche at Hohnstädt, near Leipzig.
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