Anton Joseph Prenner, “Mountain Landscape with Town”, 1728, after Paul Bril

Anton Joseph Prenner (Antonio de Brenner; Anton Joseph von Prenner; Anton von Brenner) (1683–1761)

“Mountain Landscape with Town”, 1728, after a painting by Paul Bril (Paulus Brill; Paolo Brillo) (c.1553/4–1626), plate 26 from the series, “Theatrum Artis Pictoriae” (aka “Prenner Gal Vienne”; “Galerie Impériale de Vienne”), reproducing a painting from the Imperial collection in Vienna’s Belvedere (The Imperial Gallery of Paintings). The etching is printed from two plates—an outer decorative frame plate and an inner image plate—on heavy buff laid paper and hand-coloured in the early 18th century. 

Size: (sheet) 31.2 x 38.2 cm; (outer plate mark) 25.2 x 31.5 cm; (outer image borderline) 24.1 x 31 cm

Numbered in plate within the image borderline: (upper left corner) “26.”

Lettered in plate below the inner image borderline: (left) ALT:23 LAT:35.”; (centre) “Paul Bril Pinx”; (right) “PRENNER. INCIDIT.”

Inscribed by an old hand in brown ink below the image at left: “130”.

The British Museum offers the following description of this print (without colouring): “Plate 26: Landscape with a sunrise over a valley, a group of figures resting in lower left, a village built against a mountain at right; within separately printed decorative frame; after Paul Bril; from a series of reproductions of the Imperial Gallery of Paintings in Vienna. 1728/ Etching” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1850-1021-109).

Condition: Strong, well-printed impressions of both plates. The early hand-coloured watercolour is fairly crude up close but appears vibrant and unfaded from a distance. The sheet is in excellent condition, free from tears, holes, folds, abrasions, or stains.

Price & Shipping: AU$253 (approx. US$164.57 / €140.94 / £122.42), including worldwide express shipping.

Please note: Import duties are the buyer’s responsibility.

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