A. Schumanns, ed. and publisher.
Handzeichnungen Alter Meister Der Hollandischen
Leipsig, Germany, A. Schumanns, 1921. 4th edition, improved and revise. Softcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Six volumes on the Dutch Masters with marvelous reproductions of their drawings, studies, and sketches. Translated as Hand Drawings by Old Masters of the Dutch painting school, being the fourth, improved and revised edition, complete in six volumes (missing only a single plate from one folio), bound in soft half-leather including 383 panels mounted on cardboard, in folio format, housed in original half-leather wing folders with leather corners. Folio format measuring 16” x 12”. Leather of the folders is rubbed and scraped, scuffed and worn, but the backstrips are complete and holding sufficiently. Some of the folders are stained, many edges of the folders are scuffed and/or split. All panels present, but again, handle with some care.Internally, the contents are easily Good, Very Good, structurally, being comprised of 383 of 384 hand-drawings of 60 different acknowledged oeMasters” of drawing and painting, each being tipped onto bordered cardboard plates, split between six different series. Many are sunned along edges, but only mild soiling thereto or wearing thereof. Each folder contains 64 different items except for Folio 1, which contains 63. Quite helpfully, each folder contains a folded sheet that lists each of the 64 plates. Each plate is labeled and numbered (e.g., Serie VI. Bl. 1), titled, and with the name of the painter, his lifespan, and where the drawing was held in which museum and town.Contains, among other things, some of the best loved and admired works by Rembrandt, Paulus Potter, Jan Vermeer, Lucas van Leiden, Gerard Terborch, A. van Ostade, Hendrik Goltzius, M. Hobemma, Gerard Seghers, Jan Steen, Jacob van Ruisdael and many others.Serie I: featuring the work of Rembrandt, Goltzius, Hobbema, Cuijp, Metsu, Steen, Terborch, van de Velde, Ostate, Both, Lievens, Seghers, Eeckhout, and others.Serie II: featuring the work of Rembrandt, Cuijp, Bega, Faes, Ostade, Visscher, Velde, Goijen, Crabeth, Ruisdael, Terborch, Dusart, Everdingen, and others.Serie III: featuring the work of Rembrandt, , Cuijp, vand de Velde, Ostate, Wouwerman, Steen, Ruisdael, Dusart, van der Neer, van Mieris, Visscher, and othersSerie IV: featuring the work of Rembrandt, van de Velde, Esselens, Laer, Bol, Berchem, Ruisdael, Ostade, Leiden, Liefrinck, Vermeer, Goltzius, and others.Serie V: featuring the work of Rembrandt, Brouwer, Neiulandt, Both, Hackaert, Wierix, Dusart, Ostate, Wit, Trooost, Cats, Saftleven, II, Doomer, and others.Serie VI: featuring the work of Rembrandt, Wouwerman, Ruisdael, Potter, Maes, Molenaar, Berkheijde, Wierix, Liden, Winghe, Coeck, Avercamp, Schongauer and others.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good
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Keywords: German language |Dutch Masters|holländischen|Schule|Painters|Art History|Holland