Venus honoured by the nymphs and a Faun
| Reference: | S39062 |
| Author | Jan Harmensz MULLER |
| Year: | 1591 |
| Measures: | 202 x 282 mm |
€1,500.00
| Reference: | S39062 |
| Author | Jan Harmensz MULLER |
| Year: | 1591 |
| Measures: | 202 x 282 mm |
€1,500.00
Description
Engraving, 1591 circa, signed at lower left B.' Sprangers inuentor/ JMuller sculptor. at right Harman Muller excud. /Amsterodami. with six lines of Latin text in three columns in margin.
Example of the second state of six, with Muller’s imprint. After a drawing by Bartholomeus Spranger.
Magnificent example, printed on contemporary laid paper, with “Basilisk” watermark, trimmed at margins, a paper fold at bottom centre, generally in very good condition.
Venus sits on a throne at left with her arm around Cupid and reaches for a piece of fruit in a basket offered to her by a kneeling nymph; two other nymphs and a satyr proffer baskets and a putti hovers overhead dropping flowers; in the foreground is a large column and in the distance is a temple-like structure.
Literature
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New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) 73, II/VI; Bartsch III.288.73; Filedt Kok, in Print Quarterly, n. 1 1995, p. 20.
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Jan Harmensz MULLER (Amsterdam 1571 - 1628)
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Dutch engraver, draughtsman and painter. He was the eldest son of Harmen Jansz. Muller (1540–1617), the Amsterdam book printer, engraver and publisher. The family business, called De Vergulde Passer (‘The gilded compasses’), was situated in Warmoesstraat, and Jan Muller worked there for many years. He may have been apprenticed to Hendrik Goltzius in Haarlem. Between 1594 and 1602 he is thought to have gone to Italy, where he stayed in Rome and Naples. He was related by marriage to the Dutch sculptor Adriaen de Vries, who was a pupil of Giambologna. He also maintained contacts with Bartholomeus Spranger and other artists in Prague, which under the rule of Emperor Rudolf II had become a flourishing centre of the arts. In 1602 he made an unsuccessful attempt to mediate on behalf of Rudolf II, who wanted to buy Lucas van Leyden’s Last Judgement. When Harmen Jansz. Muller died, he left the entire stock of his shop, including a number of copperplates, to his bachelor son Jan.
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Literature
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New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) 73, II/VI; Bartsch III.288.73; Filedt Kok, in Print Quarterly, n. 1 1995, p. 20.
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Jan Harmensz MULLER (Amsterdam 1571 - 1628)
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Dutch engraver, draughtsman and painter. He was the eldest son of Harmen Jansz. Muller (1540–1617), the Amsterdam book printer, engraver and publisher. The family business, called De Vergulde Passer (‘The gilded compasses’), was situated in Warmoesstraat, and Jan Muller worked there for many years. He may have been apprenticed to Hendrik Goltzius in Haarlem. Between 1594 and 1602 he is thought to have gone to Italy, where he stayed in Rome and Naples. He was related by marriage to the Dutch sculptor Adriaen de Vries, who was a pupil of Giambologna. He also maintained contacts with Bartholomeus Spranger and other artists in Prague, which under the rule of Emperor Rudolf II had become a flourishing centre of the arts. In 1602 he made an unsuccessful attempt to mediate on behalf of Rudolf II, who wanted to buy Lucas van Leyden’s Last Judgement. When Harmen Jansz. Muller died, he left the entire stock of his shop, including a number of copperplates, to his bachelor son Jan.
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