The Winter

Reference: S42141
Author Charles AUDRAN
Year: 1634
Measures: 152 x 105 mm
€280.00

Reference: S42141
Author Charles AUDRAN
Year: 1634
Measures: 152 x 105 mm
€280.00

Description

A bearded nude man reclining on a bag; a face blowing on the left. It represents the allegory of the Winter.

Etching, 1634, signed with initials and dated on plate.

From a series of four plates representing the season and executed in 1634 and published by: François Langlois, il Ciartres.

A fine impression, printed on contemporary laid paper, with margins, good condition.

Charles Audran (1594–1674) was a French engraver, the first of the Audran family who became eminent in the art of engraving. He was born in Paris in 1594. In his boyhood he showed a great disposition for the art. He received some instruction in drawing, and when still young went to Rome to complete his studies. There he produced some plates that were admired. He adopted that species of engraving that is entirely performed with the graver, and seems to have modeled his style on that of Cornelis Bloemaert.

On his return to France he lived for some time in Lyons, but finally settled in Paris, where he died in 1674, aged 80. He marked his prints, which are very numerous, in the early part of his life with a "C-", until his brother Claude, who also engraved a few plates, marked them with the same letter; he then changed it for K., as the initial of Karl.

Bibliografia
Inventaire du fonds français: graveurs du XVIIe siècle, dl. 1, p. 187, cat.nr. 172.

Charles AUDRAN (1594 - 1674, Parigi)

Charles Audran (1594–1674) was a French engraver, the first of the Audran family who became eminent in the art of engraving. He was born in Paris in 1594. In his boyhood he showed a great disposition for the art. He received some instruction in drawing, and when still young went to Rome to complete his studies. There he produced some plates that were admired. He adopted that species of engraving that is entirely performed with the graver, and seems to have modeled his style on that of Cornelis Bloemaert. On his return to France he lived for some time in Lyons, but finally settled in Paris, where he died in 1674, aged 80. He marked his prints, which are very numerous, in the early part of his life with a "C-", until his brother Claude, who also engraved a few plates, marked them with the same letter; he then changed it for K., as the initial of Karl.

Charles AUDRAN (1594 - 1674, Parigi)

Charles Audran (1594–1674) was a French engraver, the first of the Audran family who became eminent in the art of engraving. He was born in Paris in 1594. In his boyhood he showed a great disposition for the art. He received some instruction in drawing, and when still young went to Rome to complete his studies. There he produced some plates that were admired. He adopted that species of engraving that is entirely performed with the graver, and seems to have modeled his style on that of Cornelis Bloemaert. On his return to France he lived for some time in Lyons, but finally settled in Paris, where he died in 1674, aged 80. He marked his prints, which are very numerous, in the early part of his life with a "C-", until his brother Claude, who also engraved a few plates, marked them with the same letter; he then changed it for K., as the initial of Karl.