33. Allaert Van Everdingen
(1621-1675)

The Mineral Springs, No. 4

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Everdingen, The Mineral Springs

The Mineral Springs, No. 4

Etching, 126 x 170 mm., Bartsch 98, Dutuit 98 ii/ii, Hollstein 98 iii/iii. Fine, clear impression on laid paper trimmed on or just within the platemark. Everdingen’s set The Four Mineral Springs was once thought to represent scenes in Spa in Belgium but is now believed to be of Eidsvold in Norway. He was an artist whose travels took him north, rather than south or east, and many of his drawings and paintings and his landscape etchings (over 100 of them) show the mountains, the coasts, the vegetation and the architecture of Scandinavia. In this he was something of a pioneer and some of his works were of considerable influence on Ruisdael.