Saturday, August 26, 2017

Paintings by Bartholomeus Spranger copied as Engravings

after Bartholomeus Spranger
Wedding of Cupid and Psyche (left portion)
1585
engraving by Hendrik Goltzius
British Museum

after Bartholomeus Spranger
Wedding of Cupid and Psyche (right portion)
1585
engraving by Hendrik Goltzius
British Museum


Bartholomeus Spranger (1546-1611)  Mannerist painter and (occasionally) etcher. Pupil of Jan Mandyn, Frans Mostaert and Cornelis van Dalem.  He was in Paris in 1564, Milan and Parma between 1564 and 1564 and in Rome in 1566.  In 1570 he was painter in the service of Pius V, in 1575 in Vienna at the court of Maximillian II and in 1581 painter at the court of Rudolph II in Prague.

 curator's notes from the British Museum

Half a dozen different artist-engravers of Spranger's own century are represented below, each attempting to reproduce the exaggerated sinuosity of Spranger's painted figures 

after Bartholomeus Spranger
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
ca. 1585
 engraving by Hendrik Goltzius
British Museum

after Bartholomeus Spranger
Adam and Eve in Paradise
1585
engraving by Hendrik Goltzius
British Museum

after Bartholomeus Spranger
Dead Christ at tomb supported by Angel
1587
engraving by Hendrik Goltzius
British Museum

after Bartholomeus Spranger
Venus receiving gifts
ca.1588
engraving by Aegidius Sadeler II
British Museum

after Bartholomeus Spranger
Oread removing thorn from Satyr's foot
with weeping nymph and small satyr

1590
engraving by Jan Harmensz Muller
British Museum

after Bartholomeus Spranger
 Jupiter and Ceres embracing
1597
 engraving by Bartholomeus Willemsz Dolendo
British Museum

after Bartholomeus Spranger
Without Bacchus and Ceres, Venus grows cold
ca. 1597
engraving by Jan Harmensz Muller
British Museum

after Bartholomeus Spranger
Bellona leading Imperial troops against the Turks
ca. 1600
engraving by Jan Harmensz Muller
British Museum

after Bartholomeus Spranger
Cupid and Psyche
ca. 1600
engraving by Jan Harmensz Muller
British Museum

after Bartholomeus Spranger
Minerva
ca. 1600
engraving attributed to Jan Harmensz Muller
British Museum

after Bartholomeus Spranger
Minerva and Mercury arming Perseus
1604
engraving by Jan Harmensz Muller
British Museum

after Bartholomeus Spranger
Risen Christ as Gardener with Mary Magdalene
ca. 1600
engraving by Aegidius Sadeler II
British Museum