Saturday, September 9, 2017

Willem Basse, Etcher

Willem Basse
Farewell on the coast
ca. 1632-34
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Willem Basse
Landscape with woman and satyrs
ca. 1628-48
etching
British Museum

Willem Basse
Landscape with bacchanal
ca. 1638-48
etching
British Museum

"BACCHANALIA  pictures or basso relievos whereon the feast is represented consisting chiefly of dancing, nudities, and the like" – from Chambers' Cyclopaedia (1753)

"We are importuned by the bacchanalian writers to lay hold on the present hour"  from Samuel Johnson's Rambler (1750)

"Intemperance and Excess in the Heathen Bacchanals was esteemed an Act of religious Joy" from George Stanhope's Paraphrase and Comment upon the Epistles and Gospels (1705)

Willem Basse
Landscape with bacchanal
ca. 1638-48
etching
British Museum

Willem Basse
Landscape with satyrs
ca. 1628-48
etching
British Museum

Willem Basse
Landscape with bacchanal
ca. 1628-48
etching
British Museum

attributed to Willem Basse
Landscape with bacchanal
ca. 1630-45
etching
British Museum

WILLEM BASSE (1613/14-1672)  Draughtsman and etcher in manner of Rembrandt; mainly active in Amsterdam.  Born in Amsterdam; pupil of his father Jan Basse; from 1638 etchings after Goltzius; later influenced by Rembrandt; died in Amsterdam.

 biographical notes from the British Museum

Willem Basse
Christ and the woman of Samaria
ca. 1628-48
etching
British Museum

Willem Basse
Flight into Egypt
ca. 1628-48
etching
British Museum

Willem Basse
Landscape without figures
ca. 1628-48
etching
British Museum

Willem Basse
Couple eating under a tree
ca. 1628-48
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Willem Basse
Holy Family resting under a tree
ca. 1628-48
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Willem Basse
Landscape with dead tree
ca. 1628-48
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Willem Basse
Landscape with sleeping nymph
ca. 1628-48
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam