Portrait of Pieter van Laer

Reference: S35654
Author Caspar Jacobsz PHILIPS
Year: 1760 ca.
Measures: 123 x 168 mm
€300.00

Reference: S35654
Author Caspar Jacobsz PHILIPS
Year: 1760 ca.
Measures: 123 x 168 mm
€300.00

Description

Etching, 1760-1780 circa, signed at upper right “C J fe”, inscription bottom “Pieter van Laer, alias Bamboots”
Good example, printed on contemporary laid paper, in good condition.

Portrait of Pieter van Laer (1599 - 1642?) in his studio; half-length, seated to left in front of an easel; brushes and a palette on a table in foreground; after Joachim von Sandrart.

The head based on the portrait of Laer in Sandrart's 'Teutsche Academie', Nuremberg 1675, which Sandrart claims to have drawn from life.

Literature

Nagler 1858-79 II.264; van Someren 1888 3114

Caspar Jacobsz PHILIPS (1732 - 1789)

Engraver, working in Amsterdam. He was the pupil of his uncle, Jan Caspar Philips. He is most known for his drawings of Amsterdam buildings in his Grachtenboek, but he also wrote a book on perspective.

Literature

Nagler 1858-79 II.264; van Someren 1888 3114

Caspar Jacobsz PHILIPS (1732 - 1789)

Engraver, working in Amsterdam. He was the pupil of his uncle, Jan Caspar Philips. He is most known for his drawings of Amsterdam buildings in his Grachtenboek, but he also wrote a book on perspective.