Lot n° 326

VAN DE VELDE IL GIOVANE, Jan. The four Seasons. Claes Jansz Visscher, 1617.

Estimation : Start Price 2 750 €
Description
4 etchings mm. 288x426, 292x427, 290x423, 299x434; II state of IV with the monogram I.V. of the Author and the Publisher address; Numbered in the lower right part; Lily watermark.

RARE COMPLETE SET OF SEASONS. The plates, which bear the titles Ver, Aestas, autumnus and Hyems, drawn and engraved by Jan Van de Velde the Younger were published by Nicolas Visscher in 1617. Jan Van de Velde, from 1593 to 1641, operates in Haarlem in the early ' 600 and one of the greatest painters and printmakers of the time.

Extraordinary landscape artist, his art will affect different Dutch painters, among them Rembrandt.Hollstein Dutch 32-1(2); Franken and Van der Kellen 142-145; D. Freedberg, Prints of the Dutch landscape. London, The British Museum Press, 1980.

Buon esemplare.
Partager