SOME HIGH POINTS OF THE LOW COUNTRIES
(Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings)
(Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings)
- Anonymous, Christ Crowned
- van Leyden, A Young Man
- Claesz, St. Peter Seated
- att. to Aertsen, St. John
- Cort, Maria Magdalena
- Wierix, Perseus and Andromeda
- Sadeler, Annunciation
- Collaert, Italian Landscape
- Sadeler, May and June
- Sadeler, July and August
- Muller, Albert, Archduke of Austria
- Casembrot, A Galley at Anchor
- van Uden, Landscape with a Man
- Uyttenbroeck, Mercury Accuses
- Akersloot, View of Haarlem
- Rembrandt, The Descent
- Rembrandt, Beggars Receiving
- Rembrandt, Jews in Synagogue
- Rembrandt, Faust
- Rembrandt, The Pancake Woman
- Pupil Of Rembrandt, Old Woman
- Lievens, Jacques Gaultier
- Post, Public Executions
- Waterloo, Farmhouse
- Waterloo, The Little Hunchback
- Both, Two Hinnies
- Van Ostade, The Fiddler
- Van Ostade, The Breakfast
- Fyt, Set of Animals
- Nolpe, Four Gentlemen
- Suyderhoef, Peasants in an Inn
- Berchem, Animalia
- Everdingen, The Mineral Springs
- Dujardin, Man and Two Donkeys
- Zeeman, Harbor Scene
- Visscher, Angel Appearing
- Bega, The Family
- van der Cabel, River Landscape
- Schoonebeck, Frontispiece
- Dusart, The Violinist
- Gole, Backgammon Players
- Pickaert, The Five Senses
- Tanjé, Pieter Tanjé
- Le Loup, View of the Town
- Soeterik, Boaters on a Lake
- Jongkind, Jetée en Bois
- Rops, La Messagère
- Toorop, Venise Sauvée
- Van Hoytema, Ducks in a Pond
- de Bruycker, Autour le Chateau
- Nieuwenkamp, Tooren van Amersfoort
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39. Adriaen Schoonebeck (ca. 1658-1714) Allegorical Frontispiece for a Treatise on Barometers, Thermometers and Hygrometers |
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Allegorical Frontispiece for a Treatise on Barometers, Thermometers and Hygrometers
Etching, 1688, 130 x 82 mm., Wurzbach N.D. Fine impression on laid paper with a narrow margin outside the borderline. The impression is from the first edition of the Dutch translation of Joachim d’Alence’s treatise, published only in 1724. This intriguing allegorical image, important in the history of meteorology and perfectly charming simply as a print, shows barometers and hygrometers being demonstrated to Cupid and Mercury while Apollo in his chariot flies by in the sky. Schoonebeek was a pupil of Romeyn de Hooghe and worked as an etcher, illustrator and publisher in Amsterdam. At the turn of the eighteenth century, however, he removed to Moscow where, under the sponsorship of Peter the Great, he became His Majesty’s Artist and His Majesty’s Librarian, a courtier and the most important single influence on the beginnings of etching in Russia. An interesting figure.
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