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Old Master Prints: Jan Lievens (Dutch, 1607-1674)
Netherlandish School 15th-17th-Century Drawings / Flemish School, 17th-Century
Bernaert van Orley / Lucas van Leyden / Maarten de Vos / Jan Baptiste de Wael / Abraham Bloemaert
Peter Paul Rubens / Philipp Sadeler / Nicolaes Maes / Rembrandt School
Netherlandish Printmakers 16th-17th Centuries: Lucas van Leyden, Maarten van Heemskerck, Cornelis Cort
Phillips Galle, Hans (Jan) Collaert, Adriaen Collaert, Karel de Mallery, Theodore Galle, Hendrik Goltzius
Jacob Goltzius, Jacob Matham, Jan Sanraedam, Marten de Vos, Jan Sadeler, Aegidius Sadeler, Raphael Sadeler
Wierix Brothers, Rembrandt, Rembrandt School, Jan Lievens, Jan Joris van Vliet, Ferdinand Bol, Govert Flinck
North Italian Illuminated Manuscript / Italian School, 16th and early 17th-Century Drawings
Michelangelo Buonarotti (After) / Raphael / Parmigianino / Marcantonio Raimondi
Giulio Romano / Titian (after) / Andrea Schiavone / Tintoretto / Veronese / Federico Zuccaro
Jacopo Palma il Giovane / Cherubino Alberti / Luca Cambiaso / Annibale Carracci
Italian School, 17th-Century Drawings / Drawings2 / Odoardo Fialetti / Simone Cantarini / Domenichino
Francesco Albani / Guercino / Pier Francesco Mola
Italian School Printmakers, 15th-17th Centuries: Venetian School, c. 1500 / Raphael School / Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio
Marcantonio Raimondi / The Master of the Die / Anea Vico / Agostino Veneziano / Nicholas Beatrizet
Michelangelo Buonarotti (After) / Giulio Bonasone / Giovanni Battista Franco /Girolamo Fagiuoli / Cherubino Alberti
Titian (after) / Tintoretto (after) / Parmigianino / Giorgio Ghisi / Diana Scultori / Annibale Carracci / Ludovico Carracci
Agostino Carracci / Simone Cantarini / Elisabetta Sirani / Gerolamo Scarsello
German Drawings: Hans Sebald Beham / Virgil Solis / Hans van Aachen / Joseph Heinrich Roos
German 16th century printmakers: Heinrich Aldegrever, Jost Amman, Hans Sebald Beham, Hans Brosamer, Hans Burgkmair,
Lucas Cranach, Albrecht Durer, Albrecht Durer (After), Hans Holbein (After), Hopfer Brothers, Georg Pencz, Hans Schäufelein,
Virgil Solis, Wolfgang Stuber.
18th-Century Drawings / 19th-Century Drawings / 20th-Century Drawings
Lievens was one of Rembrandt's friends and a close artistic associate during Rembrandt's Leiden period. He studied under Joris van Schooten in Leiden and under Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam. He was also active in England (c. 1632-34), Antwerp (1635-44), where he was also influenced by Van Dyck, and Amsterdam. Roseline Bacou, Curator of Drawings at the Louvre, which possesses a number of his drawings, notes that "Lievens was above all a great portraitist, as evidenced by his sensitive yet objective black chalk studies. Many of his portraits . . . equal the works of Cornelis Visscher in sobriety and sincerity and have something of Van Dyck's distinction" (Great Drawings of the Louvre Museum: The German, Flemish, and Dutch Drawings, trans. Marguerite Hugo [NY: George Braziller, 1968], n. 89). This superb portrait is rich in psychological insight intno the sitter.
Selected Bibliography: J. Bialostocki, S. Jacob, R. E. O. Ekkart., Jan Lievens. Ein Maler im Schatten Rembrandts (Braunschweig: Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, 1979); Vogelaar, de Baar, Moerman, van de Wetering, et al, Rembrandt & Lievans in Leiden ((Leiden: Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, 1991; in English & Dutch); Arthur K. Wheelock with Stephanie D. Dickey, E. Melanie Gifford, Gregory Rubinstein, Jaap van der Veen, & Lloyd DeWitt, Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Restored (Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 2008.
Head of an old bearded man (B. 321) Original etching, c. 1630. Signed I. L. in the plate. The plate also informs us that it was published by S[alomen]. Savery (c. 1594-post 1664), an engraver, etcher and publisher active in the early and mid 17th century. Image size: 189x142mm. Price: SOLD.
