Portrait of Pieter van Laer
Reference: | S35654 |
Author | Caspar Jacobsz PHILIPS |
Year: | 1760 ca. |
Measures: | 123 x 168 mm |
Reference: | S35654 |
Author | Caspar Jacobsz PHILIPS |
Year: | 1760 ca. |
Measures: | 123 x 168 mm |
Description
Etching, 1760-1780 circa, signed at upper right “C J fe”, inscription bottom “Pieter van Laer, alias Bamboots”
Good example, printed on contemporary laid paper, in good condition.
Portrait of Pieter van Laer (1599 - 1642?) in his studio; half-length, seated to left in front of an easel; brushes and a palette on a table in foreground; after Joachim von Sandrart.
The head based on the portrait of Laer in Sandrart's 'Teutsche Academie', Nuremberg 1675, which Sandrart claims to have drawn from life.
Literature
Nagler 1858-79 II.264; van Someren 1888 3114
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Caspar Jacobsz PHILIPS (1732 - 1789)
Engraver, working in Amsterdam. He was the pupil of his uncle, Jan Caspar Philips. He is most known for his drawings of Amsterdam buildings in his Grachtenboek, but he also wrote a book on perspective.
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Literature
Nagler 1858-79 II.264; van Someren 1888 3114
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Caspar Jacobsz PHILIPS (1732 - 1789)
Engraver, working in Amsterdam. He was the pupil of his uncle, Jan Caspar Philips. He is most known for his drawings of Amsterdam buildings in his Grachtenboek, but he also wrote a book on perspective.
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