Portrait of Jan van der Bruggen
| Reference: | S12014 |
| Author | Ian van BRUGGEN |
| Year: | 1689 |
| Measures: | 215 x 295 mm |
€300.00
| Reference: | S12014 |
| Author | Ian van BRUGGEN |
| Year: | 1689 |
| Measures: | 215 x 295 mm |
€300.00
Description
Mezzotint, 1689, signed on lower right plate.
A great impression, printed with tone, on contemporary laid paper, trimmed to platemark and laid on antique collector’s paper, light abrasion on left margin, otherwise in good condition.
Portrait of Jan van der Bruggen, bust directed to the left, facing right, in a lettered oval; after Nicolas de Largillière.
Titled around the portrait; lettered with two columns of French verse (three lines each): “Ce juste, admirateur ... ouvrages de l'autre.”.
Lettered with production details below the portrait: “N. De Largiller Pinxit” and “I. Vander Bruggen fecit.”.
Literature
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van Someren 850; Muller 760.
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Ian van BRUGGEN (Anversa 1649 circa – Anversa 1699)
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Jan van der Bruggen was a Flemish Baroque painter and engraver.
Van der Bruggen was born in Brussels. According to Houbraken he was a great admirer of Raymond Lafage, who could draw a crowd in a tavern with his ingenious method of drawing a complicated version of the Pharaoh entering the red sea in two hours, from what appeared to be random scratches on a piece of paper. His student François Boitard could repeat this trick, but not quite as well and demonstrated this to Houbraken in London in 1709.
Van der Brugge's engraved portrait dated 1689 with a poem at the bottom declaring his admiration for Lafage was written (in part) by Jean de La Fontaine. It was made to go with a set of prints in memory of Lafage that Van der Brugge produced that year, that he sold from his house in Paris.
According to the RKD he became a master in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1679, but he moved later to Paris, where he produced a set of engravings. He is noted as a genre painter, but no works are known today. He died in Antwerp.
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Literature
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van Someren 850; Muller 760.
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Ian van BRUGGEN (Anversa 1649 circa – Anversa 1699)
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Jan van der Bruggen was a Flemish Baroque painter and engraver.
Van der Bruggen was born in Brussels. According to Houbraken he was a great admirer of Raymond Lafage, who could draw a crowd in a tavern with his ingenious method of drawing a complicated version of the Pharaoh entering the red sea in two hours, from what appeared to be random scratches on a piece of paper. His student François Boitard could repeat this trick, but not quite as well and demonstrated this to Houbraken in London in 1709.
Van der Brugge's engraved portrait dated 1689 with a poem at the bottom declaring his admiration for Lafage was written (in part) by Jean de La Fontaine. It was made to go with a set of prints in memory of Lafage that Van der Brugge produced that year, that he sold from his house in Paris.
According to the RKD he became a master in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1679, but he moved later to Paris, where he produced a set of engravings. He is noted as a genre painter, but no works are known today. He died in Antwerp.
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