Rich Landscape with Abraham and three Angels on the left
| Reference: | S7104 |
| Author | Jan van LONDERSEEL |
| Year: | 1614 |
| Measures: | 485 x 360 mm |
€1,500.00
| Reference: | S7104 |
| Author | Jan van LONDERSEEL |
| Year: | 1614 |
| Measures: | 485 x 360 mm |
€1,500.00
Description
Engraving, 1614, dated and signed in the lower right image: CIVisscher excudit / G. de hondecoutre Inventor 1614. Joan londerselius schulp
The scene appears to show the visit of the three angels to Abraham in the valley of Mambre, as recounted in Genesis 18, when Abraham 'laid their meal ready, and stood there beside them in the shade of the trees'.
On the right, a rich landscape crossed by a river with several rural dwellings and figures of peasants.
After a subject by the painter Gilles de Hondecoeter (1580-1638), the print was edited by Nicolas Visscher.
Magnificent proof, splendid contemporary hand-colouring, printed on contemporary laid paper, watermark "coat of arms with fleur-de-lis", with margins, usual trace of central vertical fold, in very good condition.
The excellent quality of the colouring significantly distinguishes and enhances these examples from those in black and white.
Jan van LONDERSEEL (Anversa circa 1570 – Rotterdam 1624/25)
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Flemish engraver, etcher and print publisher. He apparently trained in Antwerp, where he may have worked in the workshop of Abraham de Bruyn, father of his brother-in-law Nicolaes de Bruyn. About 1600 he followed his brother A(ha)ssuerus van Londerseel (bapt Antwerp, 30 March 1572; d before 21 May 1649), also an engraver and print publisher, to Rotterdam. He seems to have been active there between 1610 and 1625; in 1614 he was living in Delft.
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Jan van LONDERSEEL (Anversa circa 1570 – Rotterdam 1624/25)
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Flemish engraver, etcher and print publisher. He apparently trained in Antwerp, where he may have worked in the workshop of Abraham de Bruyn, father of his brother-in-law Nicolaes de Bruyn. About 1600 he followed his brother A(ha)ssuerus van Londerseel (bapt Antwerp, 30 March 1572; d before 21 May 1649), also an engraver and print publisher, to Rotterdam. He seems to have been active there between 1610 and 1625; in 1614 he was living in Delft.
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