Artist: Herman van Swanevelt (1603 – 1655) was a Dutch painter and etcher from the Baroque era.
Title: St Antony of Egypt visiting St Paul the Hermit.
Signed and inscribed in plate: Herman van Swanevelt Inventor fecit et excudit. [excudit is hardly visible]. HBonnart ex au Coq [hardly visible]. cum privilegio Regis.
Dimensions: Image 9 3/8" x 12 7/8". Sheet 11 1/2" x 15".
Publisher: Anonymous French publisher late XVIII C.
Date: Plate 1620-1655.
Materials and Techniques: etching and engraving on wove paper.
Watermark: "voyage en autriche". C. 1808. The same paper was used in 1808 -1814 for publishing: Laborde, Alexandre Louis Joseph de. Description des nouveaux jardins de la France. Paris 1808-1814. (Robin Halvas Ltd. Catalog III. London, 1995).
Mat and Frame: no.
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: Dents to margins, tears, soiling. The signs of aging are appropriate for the time. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Catalog Raisonne: Bartsch. Le Peintre graveur... Vol II. pp. 314-315. No. 110.
Part of: from the series of Penitent Saints in Landscapes (four prints).
Museums and Libraries: The British Museum Sheepshanks.2294.
Art Movements, Periods & Schools: Dutch School XVII C.
Note: This entry incorporates text from the catalog entry and uses the catalog description of the same item from the collection of the British Museum.
This is a late impression on wove paper with a watermark.