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Spaightwood Galleries
Dutch Old Master Prints
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This show was prompted by our acquisition over the past few years of a number of old master drawings (including works by Bernaert van Orley, Lucas van Leyden (a hand-colored impression of one of his large engravings, Golgotha), Hans Sebald Beham and studio, Annibale Carracci, Federico Zuccaro, Pier Francesco Mola, Paolo di Matteis, Jan Baptiste de Wael, and works by contemporary followers of Veronese, Domenichino, and Rembrandt Pieter de With (attributed). Some of these workks appear to be finished drawings, others attempts to conceptualize an artistic problem to be solved, still others models for members of the master's workshop to execute in whole or in part under the master's supervision.
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Dutch School (late 15th-early 16th century, St. Peter freed from chains by an angel. Pen and wash. This is a leaf from a manuscrupt prayer book commissioned by someone conservative enough not to trust such newfangled inventions as printing presses (clearly they will never last), wealthy enough to pay for a hand-made written and illustrated book, and desirous of something inspirational: the two leaves we have both feature sinners rescued by divine intervention. Image size: 120x143mm. Price: $1525.
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Dutch School (late 15th-early 16th century, St. Peter freed from chains by an angel. Pen and wash. This is a leaf from a manuscrupt prayer book commissioned by someone conservative enough not to trust such newfangled inventions as printing presses (clearly they will never last), wealthy enough to pay for a hand-made written and illustrated book, and desirous of something inspirational: the two leaves we have both feature sinners rescued by divine intervention. Image size:120x143mm. Price: $1525.
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Dutch School (late 15th-early 16th century, Mary Magdalen raised to heaven by angels. Pen and wash. This is a leaf from a manuscrupt prayer book commissioned by someone conservative enough not to trust such newfangled inventions as printing presses (clearly they will never last), wealthy enough to pay for a hand-made written and illustrated book, and desirous of something inspirational: the two leaves we have both feature sinners rescued by divine intervention. Image size:120x143mm. Price: $1525.
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Dutch School (late 15th-early 16th century, Mary Magdalen raised to heaven by angels. Pen and wash. This is a leaf from a manuscrupt prayer book commissioned by someone conservative enough not to trust such newfangled inventions as printing presses (clearly they will never last), wealthy enough to pay for a hand-made written and illustrated book, and desirous of something inspirational: the two leaves we have both feature sinners rescued by divine intervention. Image size:120x143mm. Price: $1525.
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Bernaert van Orley (Netherlandish, 1492-1542), Susannah and the elders. Pen and sepia ink drawing on laid paper without a watermark, c. 1530. Van Orley is an important Netherlandish master whose works are in the collections of most major national museums, including the National Gallery of Art in both Washington and London, the Louvre, and the Metroplitan Museum of Art. Image size: 276x403mm. Price: $7600.
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Lucas van Leyden (Dutch, 1494-1533), Golgotha (B. 74, L. 99), Original etching with later hand coloring, 1517. One of Lucas' largest prints, here in a very rare and beautiful exemplar. Lucas is considered the finest Netherlandish printmaker of the first half of the 16th century both by his contemporaries and by modern art historian. It is possible that many prints were sold and then handcolored by local artists for people who could not afford a painting. Image size: 276x403mm. Price: $6500.
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Dutch School (later 16th century), Bearded man with fantastic heelmet. Pen and brown ink. This drawing features a wonderful Mannerist helmet adorned with two captives holding up the feathers on the crest of the helmet. Prince Arthur's helmet, which features a crouching dragon underneath of acrest of "discolored hairs dancing diversely" in Book I of Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene (1590.) Like a series of later etchings by Wenzel Hollar after Parmigianino (see Jacquekine Burgers, Wenceslaus Hollar: Seventeenth-Century Prints from the Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam [Alexandria VA: Art Services International, 1994], plates 97 a-97c), this drawing may have been inspired by an Italian model inspired by descriptions like those in Ariosto's Orlando Furioso; since the Ariosto text itself spawned many literary descendants, the only model may have been the imagination of the anonymous artist. Image size: 127x95mm. Price: $2850.
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Dutch School (later 16th century), Sarah overhearing the angels announce to Abraham that she is going to give birth. Red chalk on thin laid paper. This drawing is a splendid example of late 16th-century Dutch Mannerist style typified by Maerten van Heemskerck. Image size: 240x165mm. Price: $4750.
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Rembrandt School (mid-17th century, Landscape with farmworker, windmill in the background. Pen and brown ink on laid paper, c. 1660. A very similar piece is shown in Drawings of the Rembrandt School, vol. 10, p. 5458, which is attributed to Pieter de With, a painter and etcher active during the 1660s. Its similarities to a number of drawings by Rembrandt (e.g. Slive, Dover edition, numbers 62, 63, 73, 80, 126-27, 477, and 515) are also apparent. Image size:159x242mm. Price: $6600.
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Spaightwood Galleries, Inc.
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