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HENDRICK GOUDT (after Elsheimer)
Tobias and the Angel
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Etching and engraving, 1613. 255x270 mm; 10x10
3
/
4
inches. With thread margins or
trimmed on the plate mark. A superb, dark impression with no sign of wear. Bartsch 2;
Hollstein 2.
[1,500/2,500]
97
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JANVAN DE VELDE II
TheWhite Cow
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Etching and engraving, 1622. 172x227 mm; 6
7
/
8
x9 inches. Second state (of 2). Trimmed
on the plate mark. A very good impression of this scarce print with strong contrasts.
Hollstein 368.
[1,500/2,500]
98
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ESAIAS VAN DE VELDE
A Farm to the Right of a River
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Etching, circa 1615. 94x170 mm; 3
3
/
4
x6
3
/
4
inches, thread margins. A superb, early impression
of this very scarce etching.
Van deVelde (1587-1630) was a Dutch landscape artist born in Amsterdam. He worked in
Haarlem during the 1610s and later died inThe Hague in 1630, where he had been Court
Painter to the Princes Maurits and Frederick Henry. His fluidly-drawn landscape etchings
of the Dutch landscape in and around Haarlem and Amsterdam were a direct influence on
Rembrandt. Hollstein 18.
[2,000/3,000]
98