Oreads removing a thorn from a satyr’s foot or Faun with Wounded Foot
| Reference: | S40806 |
| Author | Jan Harmensz MULLER |
| Year: | 1590 ca. |
| Measures: | 207 x 267 mm |
| Reference: | S40806 |
| Author | Jan Harmensz MULLER |
| Year: | 1590 ca. |
| Measures: | 207 x 267 mm |
Description
Engraving, 1590 circa, signed in lower left corner of the image "B. / Sprangers Ant.[us] inven. / Joan. Muller sculp:". Lettered in the margin "Sympathos haud iuvat, ast Miserans Misero auxiliatur." Four state of eight, according Filedt Kok.
After Bartholomäus Spranger.
Excellent example, printed on contemporary laid paper, “shield with Strasbourg lily” (The New Hollstein, II, p. 312, 2a), trimmed close to marginal line, in particularly good condition.
Drawing by Spranger, dated 1590, in Brussels (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunster, inv. 3434; Oberhuber, Z. 18)
Literature
The New Hollstein, The Muller Dinasty II, 71.IV; Bartsch III.287.71; J.P. Filedt Kok, ‘Jan Harmensz. Muller as Printmaker — I’, Print Quarterly 11/3 (1994), p. 233.
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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