Sailboats on a waterway passing a rocky shore
| Reference: | S42073 |
| Author | Herman Saftleven |
| Year: | 1640 |
| Measures: | 120 x 85 mm |
| Reference: | S42073 |
| Author | Herman Saftleven |
| Year: | 1640 |
| Measures: | 120 x 85 mm |
Description
Sailboats on a waterway passing a rocky shore; in foreground a male figure walking towards a moored boat.
Etching, 1640 circa, signed with monogram at lower left. From a set of Six landscapes.
Herman Saftleven the Younger (1609 - 5 January 1685 (buried)), was a Dutch painter of the Baroque period. He was also active as an engraver and etcher. In addition to early etchings dated from 1627, Saftleven completed a series of landscapes around 1640 and then, from 1644, executed etchings of Italian landscapes in the style of Jan Both. Jan van Almeloveen and Jan van Aken, who worked a few times for Saftleven, emulated his landscape prints.
A fine impression, on contemporary laid paper, trimmed to the platemark or with thin margins, good condition.
Ex collection Richard Jung (Lugt 3791).
Bibliografia
Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (25); Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (I.244.12).
Herman Saftleven (Rotterdam, 1609 – Utrecht, 1685)
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Herman Saftleven the Younger (1609 - 5 January 1685 (buried)), was a Dutch painter of the Baroque period. Born in Rotterdam, Saftleven lived most of his life (1632–1685) in Utrecht. His brothers, Cornelis Saftleven (1607–1681) and Abraham Saftleven were both painters. The former was even better known as a painter, specializing in genre scenes, while Herman was known for his landscapes of river scenes as well as of persons traveling through woods. His father, Herman Saftleven I was a painter in Rotterdam, who died by 1627. One of Herman II’s daughters, Sara Saftleven, born in Utrecht after 1633, also became a painter of flowers in watercolors. She married Jacob Adriaensz Broers in 1671.
Herman became the dean of the Guild of St Luke in Utrecht. After a storm had destroyed most of the town in the 1670s, he sold the city a series drawing he had made of Utrecht churches before they were destroyed. In the 1680s, he was commissioned by the amateur botanist and horticulturalist Agnes Block, to draw flowers and plants at her country estate near Utrecht. He died in Utrecht.
He was also active as an engraver and etcher. In addition to early etchings dated from 1627, Saftleven completed a series of landscapes around 1640 and then, from 1644, executed etchings of Italian landscapes in the style of Jan Both. Jan van Almeloveen and Jan van Aken, who worked a few times for Saftleven, emulated his landscape prints.
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Herman Saftleven (Rotterdam, 1609 – Utrecht, 1685)
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Herman Saftleven the Younger (1609 - 5 January 1685 (buried)), was a Dutch painter of the Baroque period. Born in Rotterdam, Saftleven lived most of his life (1632–1685) in Utrecht. His brothers, Cornelis Saftleven (1607–1681) and Abraham Saftleven were both painters. The former was even better known as a painter, specializing in genre scenes, while Herman was known for his landscapes of river scenes as well as of persons traveling through woods. His father, Herman Saftleven I was a painter in Rotterdam, who died by 1627. One of Herman II’s daughters, Sara Saftleven, born in Utrecht after 1633, also became a painter of flowers in watercolors. She married Jacob Adriaensz Broers in 1671.
Herman became the dean of the Guild of St Luke in Utrecht. After a storm had destroyed most of the town in the 1670s, he sold the city a series drawing he had made of Utrecht churches before they were destroyed. In the 1680s, he was commissioned by the amateur botanist and horticulturalist Agnes Block, to draw flowers and plants at her country estate near Utrecht. He died in Utrecht.
He was also active as an engraver and etcher. In addition to early etchings dated from 1627, Saftleven completed a series of landscapes around 1640 and then, from 1644, executed etchings of Italian landscapes in the style of Jan Both. Jan van Almeloveen and Jan van Aken, who worked a few times for Saftleven, emulated his landscape prints.
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