Wooded landscape with Bathsheba receiving David's letter

Reference: S7114
Author Jan van LONDERSEEL
Year: 1614 ca.
Measures: 480 x 340 mm
€1,500.00

Reference: S7114
Author Jan van LONDERSEEL
Year: 1614 ca.
Measures: 480 x 340 mm
€1,500.00

Description

Engraving, circa 1614, signed lower left: David Vinckboons Inventor Lower right: Joan londerseel Schulptor /IC (entwined) Visscher excudebat. In the lower margin, Latin verses related to the second book of Samuel, where the story of Bathsheba and King David is narrated.

After a subject by David Vinckboons. Claes Visscher as publisher. 

In a richly landscaped castle garden, Bathsheba receives David's letter by a fountain. In the distance a castle, in the foreground a pond and various animals near the forest edge.

Magnificent proof, splendid contemporary hand-colouring, printed on contemporary laid paper, with margins, usual trace of central vertical fold, in very good condition.

The excellent quality of the colouring significantly distinguishes and enhances these examples from those in black and white.

Literature

Hollstein Dutch 6_; Hollstein Dutch 7-3(3).

Jan van LONDERSEEL (Anversa circa 1570 – Rotterdam 1624/25)

Flemish engraver, etcher and print publisher. He apparently trained in Antwerp, where he may have worked in the workshop of Abraham de Bruyn, father of his brother-in-law Nicolaes de Bruyn. About 1600 he followed his brother A(ha)ssuerus van Londerseel (bapt Antwerp, 30 March 1572; d before 21 May 1649), also an engraver and print publisher, to Rotterdam. He seems to have been active there between 1610 and 1625; in 1614 he was living in Delft.

Literature

Hollstein Dutch 6_; Hollstein Dutch 7-3(3).

Jan van LONDERSEEL (Anversa circa 1570 – Rotterdam 1624/25)

Flemish engraver, etcher and print publisher. He apparently trained in Antwerp, where he may have worked in the workshop of Abraham de Bruyn, father of his brother-in-law Nicolaes de Bruyn. About 1600 he followed his brother A(ha)ssuerus van Londerseel (bapt Antwerp, 30 March 1572; d before 21 May 1649), also an engraver and print publisher, to Rotterdam. He seems to have been active there between 1610 and 1625; in 1614 he was living in Delft.