Oude prenten – Gravures anciennes24724978 • ARENBERG AUCTIONS • 19.10.2019
Gravures anciennes – Oude prenten247 [Flemish]van DOETECUM, Joannes and Lucas van Doetecum. AfterHans BOL - River landscape with a barge in the foreground an acity in the background. Antwerp, H. Cock, c. 1562.Engraving, 22,5 x 32 cm (trimmed to the borderline, without signature). Stuck bycorners under passe-partout.800 / 1.200 €From a series of 12 plates of landscapes with village scenes.Ref. Hollstein III: 13. - New Hollstein (Bol), 220.248 [Flemish]VAN DOETECUM, Johannes or Lucas. After Pieter BRUEGELTHE ELDER - Large Alpine landscape. Antwerp [= Amsterdam?],Hieronymus Cock, 1553-1556.Etching and engraving, 37,2 x 46,1 cm, laid paper, signed in the plate at lower leftcorner: «BRUEGHEL INVE/.H. cock excudeb.» (trimmed just within borderline,warm yellow paper, some diagonal creases, discoloration of the paper with lightercolour around edges, considerable tear at lower right edge, old restored tear atmiddle lower edge, poorly restored tear at upper left corner, sm. tear at lower leftcorner, plate sl. worn). Late, rather stale impression with loss of some detail in thebackground.300 / 400 €The figure of St Jerome with the lion can be found in the lower right corner withina stand of trees. Beyond opens a panoramic landscape with cliffs and mountainsextending to the right and a precipitous drop to the flat plain of a river valley tothe left. From the set of «Twelve large landscapes».Ref. Lebeer .2. - New Hollstein (The Van Doetecum Family), 11. - New Hollstein(Bruegel the Elder), 50. - Riggs 28.2.250 [Flemish]VAN DYCK, Anthony - Portrait of Pieter Brueghel the Younger.[Antwerp], G. Hendricx, 1627 - 1641.2 engravings, 14,6 x 21 cm, one on parchment and one on paper (trimmed justoutside the platemark or borderline). 1 loose, 1 stuck by corners under passepartout.2.000 / 2.200 €A man on horseback under a stand of trees on a small plateau in the rightforeground overlooking the panorama of the valley before him. The path dropsaway precipitously in front of him into an extensive river valley where fewfigures walk down into the valley. One of the landscape prints published by Cock,based upon drawings made by Bruegel after his voyage to Italy. Probably a lateredition.Ref. Lebeer 13. - New Hollstein (The Van Doetecum Family), 22. - New Hollstein(Bruegel the Elder), 610. - Riggs 29.Joined: Van Der Heyden, Pieter. After Pieter Bruegel the Elder. - The richkitchen. Antwerp, Johannes Galle, 1550-1580. Engraving, 20 x 14,6 cm, laidpaper, signed in the plate at right lower edge (left half cut off, trimmed justoutside the borderline, sl. toned, some min. foxing). Ref. Lebeer 56. - NewHollstein (Bruegel the Elder), 37. (2 pcs)Magnificent portrait of Pieter Brueghel the Younger, surnamed «Hell-fireBrueghel» from Anthony van Dyck’s «Iconography» or «Icones PrincipumVirorum», initially conceived as a series of portraits of befriended artists. Wehave two different states: a rare impression on vellum in the first state, beforeall lettering and before the borderline, and a later state printed on paper withborderline, but that cannot be identified because of its being trimmed.Brueghel’s personality traits are brilliantly characterised as he is representedhalf-length, turning slightly to the right and looking towards the viewer.Although van Dyck made a careful preparatory drawing (which is kept in theDuke of Devonshire Collection in Chatsworth) he indicated the body andbackground by outline only, regarding it thus as finished. An exceptional pieceof portrait etching that before van Dyck scarcely existed!Ref. Hollstein VI: 2. - New Hollstein (Van Dyck), 3.249 [Flemish]VAN DOETECUM, Johannes. After Pieter BRUEGEL THEELDER - St Jerome in a landscape. Antwerp, Hieronymus Cock,1556.Etching and engraving, 30 x 42,7 cm, paper underlaid, signed in plate «brueghelinve; H. Cock excu» (trimmed to borderlines, small margin at lower edge with lossof title, upper right corner and lower edges repaired with Japan paper, skillfullyrepaired tear at upper left corner, a few nick and tiny losses in left edge, plateshowing sl. wear, traces of plate tone at left and right upper edges). Good, clearimpression.400 / 500 €ARENBERG AUCTIONS • 19.10.2019 • 79