Category: History - European
When, towards the close of the last century, Adam Bartsch began that monument of his industry and patience, _Le Peintre Graveur_, he devoted the first volumes of his twenty-one, not to the early engravers of Germany or Italy, but to the Dutch etchers of the seventeenth century...
In Pieter de Laer this interest is still more frank. Born before 1613, de Laer found early a home in Italy, where his pictures were widely appreciated. In the same year that we...
2. Part 2But the city of Dierick Bouts, of Albert van Ouwater, of Jan Scorel, was at the time of Ostade’s birth, in a condition even more favourable for the production of fine work than...
3. Part 3In technical character, these etchings recall the Spanish etcher Goya, who was also fond of producing a sharp, vivid, emphatic effect by a similar artificial manner of lighting....
4. Part 4For such a nature who would predict happiness? Fortune satisfied that inborn melancholy to the full. The years brought increasing poverty, and the cares of providing for himself...
1. Part 1When, towards the close of the last century, Adam Bartsch began that monument of his industry and patience, _Le Peintre Graveur_, he devoted the first volumes of his twenty-one,...
6. Part 6The original design for this plate is in the British Museum. In the same collection is also the design for _The Cow Lying Down_ (B. 2). On the same sheet of paper is a study of...