Artist: Herman van Swanevelt (1603 – 1655) was a Dutch painter and etcher from the Baroque era.
Title: Italianate landscape with figures (Landscape with a building on a rock) from a series of twelve plates.
Signed and inscribed in plate: Herman van Swanevelt Inventor fecit et excudit. [excudit is hardly visible]. a Paris chez Mondhare rue St. Jacques. cum privilegio Regis.
Dimensions: Image 6 7/8" x 10 3/4". Sheet 9 3/8" x 13".
Publisher: Mondhare (French, 1734–1799) Paris, rue St. Jacques [in plate].
- Presumably, the same publisher as for the group of Swanevelts from our collection. Our assumption is based on the fact that all engravings are printed on the same paper.
Date: Plate 1620-1655.
Materials and Techniques: etching and engraving on wove paper.
Watermark: the same but watermarked "voyage en autriche" paper is used for another Swanevelts from our collection.
Provenance: The Estate of George "Yorgo" Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute, and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1965-2000.
Condition: Waterstain l.r. The signs of aging are appropriate for the time. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Catalog Raisonne: A. Bartsch. Le Peintre graveur... Vol II. pp. 303-304. No. 94.
Part of: from the series Twelve Landscapes.
Museums and Libraries: The British Museum Sheepshanks.2265
Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-60.939.
Galéria mesta Bratislavy C 9811.
Art Movements, Periods & Schools: Dutch School XVII C.
Note: This entry incorporates text from the catalog entries and uses the catalog descriptions of the same items from the collections of the British Museum and the Rijksmuseum.
This is a late impression on wove paper.