GRABADOS ARENBERG 19.10.2019

Oude prenten – Gravures anciennes
Like the lion, a virtuous man drinks at once the bitter
and the sweet
158 [Dutch]
HOEFNAGEL, Jacob. After Joris HOEFNAGEL - Flos cinis
(Insects, fruits and flowers around a moth).
Engraving, 15 x 20,6 cm, hand-coloured, unidentified watermark (underlaid,
trimmed outside the platemark). Stuck by corners under passe-partout.
300 / 400 €
Nicely coloured plate from the series «Archetypa studiaque patris Georgii
Hoefnagelii» (12 pl.) with Latin emblematic quote: «Lilia agros, virtusque viros,
coelum astra coronant. Ut leo vir fortis dulce & amara bibit.»
Ref. Hollstein IX: 17-64. - Vignau-Wilberg 2017: G11.
159 [Dutch]
HONDIUS, Hendrik - Frontispiece to the Atlas Novus.
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius; Hendrik Hondius, 1638.
Engraving, 36,5 x 23,7 cm, contemp. hand-coloured (underlaid, borders
reinforced, some sm. stains and creases). Stuck by upper corners under passepartout.
250 / 300 €
Title-page with orig. colouring to Gerard Mercator’s Atlas Novus, published in
Amsterdam in 1638. With pasted-over imprint over French version.
Ref. STCN. - Koeman II:51a. - Van der Krogt I:401.1.
161 [Dutch]
JANSONIUS - Frontispiece to «Le Nouveau Théâtre».
Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1641.
Engraving, 37,1 x 23,4 cm, underlaid (paper soiled, some creases and old repairs).
Under passe-partout.
200 / 250 €
Hand-coloured title page to the 3rd vol. with the figure of Atlas surrounded by
allegorical representations of the continents in an architectural framework.
Ref. Van der Krogt I:415.3d.
162 [Dutch]
LIEVENS, Jan - Buste of an old woman with cloak. Antwerp,
Frans Van den Wyngaerde, 1625-1674.
Etching, 11,2 x 12,6 cm, laid paper, signed at lower left corner (trimmed just
outside platemark at left and right edges, trimmed inside borderline at upper edge
without loss to image, some min. foxing). Stuck by upper corners under passepartout.
Somewhat grey impression.
150 / 200 €
160 [Dutch]
HONERVOGT, Jacques. After Cornelis CORNELISZ. - «The
Four Disgracers». Paris, C. 1610-1670.
4 engravings, diameter 17,5 cm, laid paper, signed (browned, sm. foxing, some
tears, sm. repairs, trimmed at framing line). Pasted under passe-partout.
120 / 150 €
The print is sometimes also referred to as «Rembrandt’s mother». 2nd state (of 2).
Ref. Hollstein XI:49.2.
Mirrored copies after the famous series of Hendrick Golzius (1558-1617) with new
text margin. These extraordinary tondos are some of the the most daring works to
have resulted from the brief collaboration in 1588 between Goltzius and the painter
Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem (1562-1638). Given their popularity, the prints in
the series were quickly copied by other engravers such as Jacques Honervogt, who
was born in Cologne, but was active as a printmaker in Paris from 1608.
Ref. New Hollstein (Goltzius), 325-28. - Bartsch III.79.258-61.
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