Lot and his Daughters
| Reference: | S40805 |
| Author | Jan Harmensz MULLER |
| Year: | 1600 ca. |
| Measures: | 460 x 420 mm |
€1,800.00
| Reference: | S40805 |
| Author | Jan Harmensz MULLER |
| Year: | 1600 ca. |
| Measures: | 460 x 420 mm |
€1,800.00
Description
Engraving, 1600 circa, signed below in the image, at right: “Joannes Muller. fecit”; at left “Harmannus Muller. excud. Amstelodamj”.
A fine impression, printed with tone on contemporary laid paper, trimmed to the borderline and pasted on 19th Century mounting, good condition.
This print, though stylistically closely related to Spranger, must have been designed by Muller himself.
The drawing for this print, signed “JMuller fecit”, is attributed by Bartsch (III, p. 284, n. 64) to Spranger. Obheruber (cf. Die Stilistiche Entwicklung im Werk Bartholomaeus Spranger, p. 294 n. 93), has pointed out the inaccuracy of the attribution to Spranger.
Literature
Bartsch, III.286.64; The New Hollstein, II, p. p.177, 64 II/IV; Filedt Kok (Print Quarterly, september 1994) pp. 250 -251; Hollstein, XIV, 10.
Jan Harmensz MULLER (Amsterdam 1571 - 1628)
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Dutch engraver, draughtsman and painter. He was the eldest son of Harmen Jansz. Muller (1540–1617), the Amsterdam book printer, engraver and publisher. The family business, called De Vergulde Passer (‘The gilded compasses’), was situated in Warmoesstraat, and Jan Muller worked there for many years. He may have been apprenticed to Hendrik Goltzius in Haarlem. Between 1594 and 1602 he is thought to have gone to Italy, where he stayed in Rome and Naples. He was related by marriage to the Dutch sculptor Adriaen de Vries, who was a pupil of Giambologna. He also maintained contacts with Bartholomeus Spranger and other artists in Prague, which under the rule of Emperor Rudolf II had become a flourishing centre of the arts. In 1602 he made an unsuccessful attempt to mediate on behalf of Rudolf II, who wanted to buy Lucas van Leyden’s Last Judgement. When Harmen Jansz. Muller died, he left the entire stock of his shop, including a number of copperplates, to his bachelor son Jan.
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Jan Harmensz MULLER (Amsterdam 1571 - 1628)
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Dutch engraver, draughtsman and painter. He was the eldest son of Harmen Jansz. Muller (1540–1617), the Amsterdam book printer, engraver and publisher. The family business, called De Vergulde Passer (‘The gilded compasses’), was situated in Warmoesstraat, and Jan Muller worked there for many years. He may have been apprenticed to Hendrik Goltzius in Haarlem. Between 1594 and 1602 he is thought to have gone to Italy, where he stayed in Rome and Naples. He was related by marriage to the Dutch sculptor Adriaen de Vries, who was a pupil of Giambologna. He also maintained contacts with Bartholomeus Spranger and other artists in Prague, which under the rule of Emperor Rudolf II had become a flourishing centre of the arts. In 1602 he made an unsuccessful attempt to mediate on behalf of Rudolf II, who wanted to buy Lucas van Leyden’s Last Judgement. When Harmen Jansz. Muller died, he left the entire stock of his shop, including a number of copperplates, to his bachelor son Jan.
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