Apollo and Leucothea
| Reference: | S39065 |
| Author | Jacob MATHAM |
| Year: | 1590 ca. |
| Measures: | 195 x 280 mm |
€1,000.00
| Reference: | S39065 |
| Author | Jacob MATHAM |
| Year: | 1590 ca. |
| Measures: | 195 x 280 mm |
€1,000.00
Description
Engraving, c. 1590, lettered and numbered in lower left corner: "HG invent" and "2".
Lettered, below with four lines of verse: "Phebus Leucothoeu blandis... / ... potitur amate." After a drawing by Hendrick Goltzius.
A very good example, printed on contemporary laid paper, trimmed close to platemark, with unidentified watermark, in good condition.
Plate 2 of four, of a series The loves of the gods. It shows Apollo (Phoebus) and Leucothea. Interior of a bedroom with Apollo at left, putting his arms around the neck of Leucothea, both falling back on to a bed, a lyre is propped against the bed in lower right corner, a pair of slippers in central foreground.
According Ovid (Met. IV 190 -255) Venus has her revenge on the Sun-God by making him victim to the pains of love. He dons drag to appear as Leucothoe's mother in order to get close. A jealous Clytie rats her out to her father, who, despite her cry that “He ravished me / Against my will" (81), buries Leucothoe in the earth. The Sun-God cannot revive her, and instead she turns into frankincense.
The critical success of the Haarlem engraver, publisher, and draughtsman Jacob Matham (1571–1631) is primarily linked to the name of Hendrick Goltzius, whose adopted son he became at the age of eight. Trained by Goltzius, he took over the workshop after Goltzius turned to painting around 1600. Matham's work reveals Goltzius's strong technical influence, although Matham developed a broader and less refined technique over the years. Unlike Goltzius, Jacob Matham served a Catholic ideal by engraving numerous saints. In addition to his religious output, he engraved and published allegorical New Year's compositions for rectors and guilds. His three sons, Adriaen, Jan, and Theodoor, were also engravers.
Collector’s mark of George Bainbridge (Lugt 1921).
Bibliografia
New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) 172.I (Jacob Matham); Hollstein 234; New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) 593 (Hendrick Goltzius; Prints after inventions by Goltzius); Bartsch III.169.157.
Jacob MATHAM (Haarlem 1571 - 1631)
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Jacob Adriaenszoon Matham (Haarlem, October 15, 1571 (baptized) - Haarlem, January 20, 1631) was a Dutch engraver and draftsman of the Golden Century.
Father of engravers Jan, Adriaen and Theodor, was a pupil and stepson of Hendrick Goltzius, who married Jacob's mother in 1579, took him as his apprentice. He was active first in Italy from 1593 to 1597, where he stayed mainly in Venice and Rome, and then in his hometown from 1598 to 1631. In 1600 he became a member of the local Guild of San Luca. In 1601 he obtained a printing privilege from King Rudolph II in Prague. He devoted himself mainly to the realization of religious subjects, producing also devotional prints, landscapes and portraits, especially of his contemporaries made on copper. His works show the influence of Hendrick Goltzius, from whose drawings and paintings he made several engravings and whose manner he imitated closely. A very prolific author, he made several engravings both from the works of Italian authors (from his own drawings or those of Goltzius), and from the works of Pieter Paul Rubens from 1611-1615 and Pieter Aertsen. Matham had several pupils including Johannes Everardsz van Bronckhorst, Pieter Soutman, Jan van de Velde II and his son Adriaen.
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Jacob MATHAM (Haarlem 1571 - 1631)
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Jacob Adriaenszoon Matham (Haarlem, October 15, 1571 (baptized) - Haarlem, January 20, 1631) was a Dutch engraver and draftsman of the Golden Century.
Father of engravers Jan, Adriaen and Theodor, was a pupil and stepson of Hendrick Goltzius, who married Jacob's mother in 1579, took him as his apprentice. He was active first in Italy from 1593 to 1597, where he stayed mainly in Venice and Rome, and then in his hometown from 1598 to 1631. In 1600 he became a member of the local Guild of San Luca. In 1601 he obtained a printing privilege from King Rudolph II in Prague. He devoted himself mainly to the realization of religious subjects, producing also devotional prints, landscapes and portraits, especially of his contemporaries made on copper. His works show the influence of Hendrick Goltzius, from whose drawings and paintings he made several engravings and whose manner he imitated closely. A very prolific author, he made several engravings both from the works of Italian authors (from his own drawings or those of Goltzius), and from the works of Pieter Paul Rubens from 1611-1615 and Pieter Aertsen. Matham had several pupils including Johannes Everardsz van Bronckhorst, Pieter Soutman, Jan van de Velde II and his son Adriaen.
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