Lot n° 5
Estimation :
3000 - 4000
EUR
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Result
: 8 320EUR
Pieter Brueghel the Elder (ca. 1525-ca. 1569)... - Lot 5 - Ader
Pieter Brueghel the Elder (ca. 1525-ca. 1569) (after
)Nundinae Rusticorum (The Peasants' Market). (Pl. of a suite of 12 landscapes). Circa 1557. Etching and burin by Jan and Lucas van Doetecum. 416 x 325. Hollstein 13; New Hollstein (Bruegel) 59. A very fine and bright proof on thin laid paper, of the 2nd state (of 3), before number 2 after the excudit, trimmed on the square line but well complete with the tablet, the lines of lettering still very visible (indicative of one of the first proofs drawn). Some light scattered foxing. Vertical drying fold in the middle. Traces of folds, including a few fine folds of printing. Small remnants of tabs and traces of glue at the edges of the folio on the reverse side. Ex-coll. J. Cantacuzène (Lugt 4030).
Reproduced in J. van der Stock, ed. in Hieronymus Cock; La gravure à la Renaissance (exhibition at the Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels, and at the Fondation Custodia, Collection Frits Lugt), Paris, Brussels, Fonds Mercator ed. 2013, p. 387, no. 107.11.
"...the overall conception [of the suite] became clearer during the course of execution. Thus, Fuga deiparae in Aegyptum and Nundinae rusticorum were printed for the first time without Bruegel's name appearing in them, probably because Cock did not yet see this as a persuasive commercial argument. He soon changed his mind, however, since in the second state of these prints - no doubt related to the amplification of the initial project - Bruegel is now listed as inventor, which reveals how the preparation of the Great Landscapes was a decisive turning point in the young artist's career." (D. Allart, in J. van der Stock, ed., Hieronymus Cock; La gravure à la Renaissance, op. cit., p. 380)
"One of the more intimate landscapes of the series that call to mind Flemish villages rather than Alpine heights. Oberhuber has argued that this etching reveals a higher quality than many of the others in the series, indicating perhaps the work one of the van Doetecum brothers working alone. See Oberhuber, "Zwischen Renaissance und Barock", 1968." (www.britishmuseum.org).
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