GRABADOS ARENBERG 19.10.2019

Oude prenten – Gravures anciennes
197 [Flemish]
COCK, Hieronymus. After Mathijs COCK - Abraham and
Isaac. Antwerp, Hieronymus Cock, 1551.
Etching, 24,3 x 34 cm, laid paper, signed and dated in the plate «H.Cock.Fe.1551»
(trimmed to borderline, sm. brown spot near Abraham’s hand, sm. tear at upper
right edge). Loose sheet under passe-partout, fine dark impression.
600 / 700 €
199 [Flemish]
COLLAERT, Adriaen; GALLE, Theodoor; DE PASSE, Crispijn
I. After Maarten DE VOS - The Ten Commandments. [Antwerp],
Ph. Galle.
7 engravings, 19,5 x 24,5 cm, numbered and signed (wide margins). Loose.
300 / 400 €
(Detail)
Rare print of a landscape with Abraham about to sacrifice his son Isaac. A lamb
is trapped in the bushes on the right-hand corner. The etching is one of the
earliest prints published by Cock’s Aux Quatres Vents, probably made after the
landscape drawings by his brother Mathijs Cock. First and only state.
Ref. Riggs no. 37. - Hollstein IV:1. - Leuven (Cock) 2013, no. 95.
198 [Flemish]
Attributed to Adriaen COLLAERT and Johann SADELER I.
After Jan I SNELLINCK and Maarten VAN CLEVE - Betsabe
& Urias. Antwerp, G. De Jode, 1585.
4 engr., 19,5 x 28,5 cm (warm toned paper, wide margins). Stuck by upper margin
under passe-partout.
200 / 300 €
7 of 11 pl. from the series, all 1st st., including pl. 2: the blasphemer stoned
to death by the Israelites, pl.3: the punishment of the Sabbath-breaker, pl. 4:
Shem and Japhet covering the nakedness of Noah, pl. 5: Joab killing Amasa, pl.
7: Joshua judging Achan, pl. 8: Daniel cross-examining the elders who accused
Susanna, pl. 10: Ahab coveting Naboth’s vineyard.
Ref. Hollstein XLIV: 74-77, 79-80, 82.
200 [Flemish]
COLLAERT, Adriaen. After Hendrik VAN CLEVE - Regionum,
rurium, fundorumque, varii at ove amoeni prospectus. Antwerp,
P. Galle, 1587.
10 engravings, 19 x 24 cm, numbered and signed «Adria Col. sculps.» (wide
margins, sl. wear in margins). Stuck by corners under passe-partout.
1.200 / 1.500 €
Complete series of 4 engr. from the Story of Solomon. 2nd edition with the first
plate replaced by a new one -attributed to A. Collaert after J. Snellinck I- that
shows Betsabe who receives a letter from David and that later was included in
Claes Janszoon Visscher’s «Theatrum biblicum». The other three by J. Sadeler
I after M. van Cleve represent: David speaks to Uria, Uria is killed in the battle
and David rebuked by Nathan. All were published in the «Thesaurus Sacrarum
Historiarum veteris testamenti» by Gerard de Jode.
Ref. New Hollstein (De Jode Dynasty I), 118-122.1.
Complete series of Collaert’s «Landscapes with ruins» after Cleve’s drawings of
Italianate landscapes that were made late in his career.
Ref. Hollstein IV: 535-546.
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