Pieter Nolpe (1613/14 - c.1652/3)
“Hercules
Unifies the Split French Empire” (“Hercules
smeedt het gespleten Franse Rijk tot een eenheid” [Rijksmuseum title]), 1638,
after Nicolaes Cornelisz. Moyaert (aka Claes Cornelisz Moeyaert; Nicolaes Cornelisz. Moeyart)
(1590/1600–1655), plate 12 from the series of 16 plates, “Festivities at the
visit of Maria de' Medici to Amsterdam in 1638” published in Amsterdam by Johannes
Blaeu (Joan Blaeu; Johannes Willemszoon Blaeu; Johan Blaeu; Jan Willemsz
Blaeu) (1596–1673) and Cornelis Blaeu (aka Cornelius Blaeu) (1610–1648)
in 1638 as a folded insert between pages 48 and 49 in Kaspar van Baerle’s
(aka Caspar van Barlaeus) (1584–1648), “Medicea hospes, sive Descriptio pvblicæ
gratvlationis: qua Serenissimam, Augustissimamque reginam, Mariam de Medicis,
excepit Senatvs popvlvsqve Amstelodamensis.”
Archive.org offers
an online view of this print in its context in Van Baerle’s publication: https://archive.org/details/mediceahospessiv00baer/page/n85/mode/2up.
Etching on laid
paper with a small margin around the platemark, backed with a support sheet.
Size: (sheet)
32.1 x 41.2 cm; (plate) 30 x 39 cm; (image borderline) 29 x 38.3 cm.
Inscribed in
plate within the image borderline: (lower right) “CL [ligature initials] M. Inv:”
State iii? (of
iii) Note that plate number (“12”) signifying state iii seems to be in pencil rather
than inscribed in the plate suggesting that this impression is from an earlier
state or the number has been erased. Note
that the Orn Cat II does not make a distinction between states ii and iii.
Orn Cat II
10050 (Peter Fuhring; transl. from the Dutch by Jennifer Kilian and Katy Kist
2004, “Ornament prints in the Rijksmuseum II: the seventeenth century”,
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Sound and Vision, vol. 3, p. 71, cat. no. 10050);
Hollstein Dutch 102.
The British
Museum offers the following description of this print:
“Plate 12:
Allegory on the Discord in France; Henri IV as Hercules repairing the broken
globe representing 'Gallia' by forging a band around it, Minerva and Mars at
left assisting him, Marie de Medici standing at right, a female personification
of France at left, the Olympian Gods onlooking from the clouds above; after
Nicolaes Moyaert; illustration to Caspar Barlaeus' ‘Medicea Hospes’
(Amsterdam: 1638) Etching” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1871-1209-4805).
See also the
description offered by the Rijksmuseum: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.163307.
Condition: a
strong impression with small margins around the platemark (approx. 1 cm) and
laid upon an archival support sheet of millennium quality washi paper which has
flattened the publication centrefold so that it is almost invisible. The upper right
corner of the margin is lost and there are are fractures to the left margin, otherwise
the image area is in a very good condition with no holes, stains or foxing.
I am selling
this remarkable etching showing Henry IV cast in a tableau vivant as Hercules repairing
the world that had been broken in halves (see my previous listing which shows
the world as a broken globe and Marie de Medici pleading for the gods to help),
for the total cost of AU$354 (currently US$266.55/EUR224.51/GBP192.78 at the
time of this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world,
but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries.
If you are
interested in purchasing this marvellous amalgam of classical antiquity with
politics and the Baroque Age—please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com)
and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.
This print has been sold
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