Author: Cornelis Bloemaert (ca.1603-1692) or Boetius Adams Bolswert (ca. 1580-1633), after Abraham Cornelisz. Bloemaert (1564/66-1651)
Title: Antique print, engraving | Bloemaert: Woman with poultry, published ca. 1650, 1 p.
Description: Second plate from a set of sixteen pastoral scenes.A Woman with Poultry. Landscape with a peasant woman reclining next to a basket, holding two chickens by their feet.Two lines of Latin text at bottom: Me Veniente die merx rustica mitti ad Vrbem. / Nec grauor: id lucri spes mihi dulce facit. Text by Hendrik de Roij, 'city physician of Utrecht and a nephew of Abraham's [n.d.r. Bloemaert] second wife' [Eddy de Jong, Mirror of Everyday's life 1997, cat. 37, p. 195].The original set was published in Utrecht between 1627 and 1630 and it became particularly popular and was copied in France (notably by Louis Spirinx) and in Italy.This is a copy in reverse, that may be attributed to Boetius Adams Bolswert (see Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, Fondo Corsini, inv. S-FC2026).Numbered below on the right: 2.[NL] Antieke prent door Bloemaert. Een vrouw ligt te rusten met een mand en twee kippen naast haar. Engraving on laid paper, cut within plate mark and pasted down on cardboard; total: 106 x 149 mm; state I/2; smudges and some discoloration due to handling. In cardboard passepartout. Overall fine impression. Hollstein 212-215 copy.
Keywords: Agriculture|Allegories|Animals|Farm|Farmers|Landscapes
Title: Antique print, engraving | Bloemaert: Woman with poultry, published ca. 1650, 1 p.
Description: Second plate from a set of sixteen pastoral scenes.A Woman with Poultry. Landscape with a peasant woman reclining next to a basket, holding two chickens by their feet.Two lines of Latin text at bottom: Me Veniente die merx rustica mitti ad Vrbem. / Nec grauor: id lucri spes mihi dulce facit. Text by Hendrik de Roij, 'city physician of Utrecht and a nephew of Abraham's [n.d.r. Bloemaert] second wife' [Eddy de Jong, Mirror of Everyday's life 1997, cat. 37, p. 195].The original set was published in Utrecht between 1627 and 1630 and it became particularly popular and was copied in France (notably by Louis Spirinx) and in Italy.This is a copy in reverse, that may be attributed to Boetius Adams Bolswert (see Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, Fondo Corsini, inv. S-FC2026).Numbered below on the right: 2.[NL] Antieke prent door Bloemaert. Een vrouw ligt te rusten met een mand en twee kippen naast haar. Engraving on laid paper, cut within plate mark and pasted down on cardboard; total: 106 x 149 mm; state I/2; smudges and some discoloration due to handling. In cardboard passepartout. Overall fine impression. Hollstein 212-215 copy.
Keywords: Agriculture|Allegories|Animals|Farm|Farmers|Landscapes
Price: EUR 121.00 = appr. US$ 131.51 Seller: Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur
- Book number: K80101
- Book number: K80101