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Plaques de cuivre – Collection E.S. – Koperplaten – Verzameling E.S.
Koperplaten – Verzameling E.S.
Plaques de cuivre – Collection E.S.
A remarkable private Brussels collection of engraved
printing plates, mainly from the 17th and 18th century:
coats of arms (mostly from the southern Netherlands),
portraits, religious scenes, picturesque views ... by renowned
artists from France and the Low Countries.
595
Antique vase in the Villa d’Este in Tivoli. [18th c.].
23 x 23 cm.
150 / 200 €
Large and detailed view of the vase with decoration showing three putti picking
grapes. Below, the caption: «Vaso antico che esistera in / Villa d’Este in Tivoli».
On the top: mentions for the placement of the plate («T. III / 57»).
596
AUDRAN, Gérard and Jean - 2 plates with scenes from the life
of Christ. Paris, [18th c.].
(Some stains).
450 / 600 €
Two beautiful works respectively by Gérard Audran (1640-1703), engraver to
the king, and by his nephew Jean (1667-1756): 1. G. Audran, after a painting
by Nicolas Poussin - Christ and the woman taken in adultery. 28 x 36,5 cm.
Engr. in the same direction as the original painted in 1653 (Louvre Museum).
Later (?) mention «A Paris chez Mondhare rue S.t Jacques», editor active at this
address from 1759 to 1780. Caption: «Les scribes et les pharisiens amenèrent à
Jésus une femme surprise en adultère, essayant de le surprendre, afin d’avoir /
occasion de l’accuser, et Jésus leur dit. Que celui d’entre vous qui est sans péché
lui jette la premiere pierre. En S.t Jean chap. 8».— 2. J. Audran, after a painting
by Pierre Mignard - Jesus on the way to Calvary. «Imp. Lamoureux r. S. Jean
de Beauvais», «Et presentem[ent] chez Jean, rue Jean de Beauvais N° 10», «A
Paris, chez la veuve Audran rue S. Jacques aux 2 Pilliers [sic] d’or». 28 x 37 cm.
Ref. Wildenstein, Georges - Les Graveurs de Poussin au XVIIe siècle. Paris, 1957,
p. 109, num. 66.
Joined: Le Christ guérit le fils d’un officier du roi. [illegible addresse]. 26,5 x 37
cm. At the right of Christ’s figure: «vade, / filius / tuus vivit : Jean Cap. / 4. V. 50».
(3 pl.)
Nice portrait engraved for Foppens’s famous
«Bibliotheca Belgica»
598
CLOUWET, Petrus. After Abraham van DIEPENBEECK -
Portrait of the Antwerp physician Michaël Boudewyns (1591-
1681), president of the «Collegium medicum». [Antwerp], C. 1664.
29 x 20 cm, sign. «Abraham a Diepenbeeck delineauit excudi iussit / Petrus
Clouwet sculpsit».
500 / 700 €
Portrait of Boudewyns made to commemorate his appointment as physician at
St-Elizabeth Hospital in 1664. He is depicted knee-length, turned slightly to the
left, facing the viewer, standing in a room with a bookcase (date 1664 written on
the top), pointing at an anatomical plate in a book lying open on a table. Coat of
arms in the upper corner; below, the caption «Michaël Boudewyns / Patriae suae
celeberrimae urbis Antverpiensis medic. et philosoph. / doctor pensionatius,
anatomiae et chirurgiae praelector, / hospitalis S[anct]ae Elysabethae
medicus et coll. med. praeses.». This plate engraved by Clouwet (1629-1670)
after a drawing by Van Diepenbeeck (1596-1675) was reprinted in Foppens’s
«Bibliotheca Belgica» (Brussels, 1739, II, facing p. 890).
Ref. British Museum Collection online (issue reproduced). - Wellcome Library
1290i (original etching by A. van Diepenbeeck). - Biogr. nat. II:797/799.
Prov. Public auction Van Herck Dec. 1992 (ms. label).
599
Emblematic figure of a nun bearing in hands a skull and a snake.
[17th - 18th c.].
14,5 x 10,5 cm.
120 / 180 €
Intriguing «memento mori» scene, with the figure standing in the austere
location of a monastery, looking at a skull.
600
GALLE, Cornelis - Christ and the woman taken in adultery. [17th c.].
6,6 x 9,4 cm, sign. «C. Galle».
100 / 130 €
Probably made for a missal by Cornelis Galle the Younger (1615-1678).
Joined: Issue on old laid paper, watermarked.
Amazing and iconic image of the future patron of
aviators and air travellers
597 [Brussels]
Bird’s-eye view of the church and cloister of the Minims at
Brussels, with emblematic view of the transportation of Our
Lady of Loreto. [17th c.].
28 x 19 cm (some marginal stains).
250 / 350 €
In 1621, Archduchess Isabella of Austria erected near the church of the Minims
Fathers in Brussels, a chapel reproducing exactly the shape and dimensions of
the Holy House of Loreto. According to tradition, the house in Nazareth where
the Virgin Mary was born, grew up and received the announcement from the
Archangel Gabriel, was miraculously transported in Loreto (Italy) at the end of
the 13th century. In 1920, the Virgin of Loreto became the patron of aviators and
air travellers! In Brussels, the chapel Notre-Dame de Lorette was built on the
site of a bawdy house bought by the Archduchess, to symbolize the possibility
that the prostitutes could be redeemed. The plate shows, on top, the Holy House
with the Virgin and the Child being tranported through the air by angels and
looking down on to the city, with the church and some buildings surrounded by
a fortified wall, a sea with some ships in the background, and two pilgrims in
the foreground. Below, a caption: «Het broederschap van onse L: Vrouwe van
Loretten. / Opgherecht in de kercke van de PP: Minimen, tot Brussel».
Ref. Henne, A. & Wauters, A. - Histoire de la ville de Bruxelles. IV:39.
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