Wednesday, August 4, 2021

European Prints before 1925

Jan Lievens
Mercury and Argus
ca. 1625-26
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jan Lievens after Rembrandt
Diana
(detail of painting, Diana at the Bath)
ca. 1631
etching
British Museum

Jan Lievens
Night Scene with Hurdy-Gurdy Player
ca. 1630
etching
British Museum

Jan Lievens
Philosopher with an Hourglass
before 1674
woodcut
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

from Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

A man's true merit 'tis not hard to find,
But each man's secret standard in his mind,
That casting weight pride adds to emptiness,
This, who can gratify? for who can guess?

– Alexander Pope (1734)

Pieter Claesz Soutman after Peter Paul Rubens
Consecration of the Bishop of Noyon
(with scene of Pentecost above)
ca. 1640
etching
Art Institute of Chicago

Jean Lepautre after François Perrier
Acis and Galatea
before 1682
etching
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Jean Lepautre 
Two Men studying Antique Statue on Plinth
before 1682
etching
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Jean Lepautre 
Académie
(with model posed as Hercules)
before 1682
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Johannes Kip after Leonard Knyff
Hampton Court Palace
(from Britannia Illustrata)
1707
etching and engraving
Art Institute of Chicago

Stefano Mulinari after Gaspare Celio
Wrestlers
ca. 1774
etching
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Stefano Mulinari after Parmigianino
Two studies of a Youth in Profile
ca. 1774
etching
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Giovanni Fabbri
Standing Figure with Proportions
(after drawing then attributed to Michelangelo)
before 1777
etching
British Museum

Lovis Corinth
David and Goliath
1923
etching
British Museum

Lovis Corinth
The Crucifixion
1916
lithograph
British Museum

Lovis Corinth
Charlotte (Portrait of the Artist's Wife)
1919
drypoint
British Museum