43. Pieter Tanjé (1706-1761) after
Jan Maurits Quinkhard (1688-1772)

Pieter Tanjé With His Print of Lucretia

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Tanjé, Pieter Tanjé

Pieter Tanjé With His Print of Lucretia

Etching and engraving, 1760, 396 x 284 mm., Wurzbach 51, Nagler Kunstlerlexicon 1. Fine impression on laid paper trimmed just inside the plate mark but with a white border and the full text; some small wrinkles and the lower corners of the sheet (blank) clipped and replaced. Tanjé, in his time, was a noted engraver of portraits, largely forgotten today except in his native land. He was originally in the shipping business, but devoted his spare time to engraving designs for snuff boxes. Notice of his fine, self-taught work led to encouragement and formal study with Picart and Houbraken, among others and his establishment as one of the best Dutch reproductive engravers of his time. The print he so proudly displays here is Tarquin and Lucretia after the painting by Luca Giordano.

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