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The Nativity
| Reference: | S13115 |
| Author | Jacob MATHAM |
| Year: | 1604 |
| Measures: | 192 x 444 mm |
€1,200.00
- New
| Reference: | S13115 |
| Author | Jacob MATHAM |
| Year: | 1604 |
| Measures: | 192 x 444 mm |
€1,200.00
Description
An altarpiece with the Nativity surrounded by a decorated architectural framework (surmounted by a cartouche containing the image of the crucifixion) and flanked in the foreground by St Peter, stern and holding keys, and St Paul, holding a sword, at right; Peter points to the painting (the Christ child lies asleep in a straw lined manger in a stable and is surrounded by adoring shepherds).
Engraving, 1604, lettered in a cartouche at the foot of the altarpiece. Dated in lower left corner "Anno" and at right "1604". Below "Cum privil. Sa. Cæ. M. [] Petrus van Rÿck Inuentor [] I. Maetham sculptor et excudit".
After a subject of Pieter van Ryck.
The subject is enclosed in a sumptuous decorative frame, with puttos and caryatids, with the crucifixion of Christ and St. Peter and St. Paul on the foreground.
Magnificent work, rich in shades, printed on contemporary laid paper without watermark, trimmed to platemark, horizontal signs of fold on verso, in general in good condition.
Literature
The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700, Jacob Matham, n. 19; Hollstein, Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700, n. 32; Bartsch, Le Peintre graveur (III.180.195).
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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