Jean Audran, “Portrait of Pierre Paul Rubens”, 1710, after Jean Marc Nattier & Anthony van Dyck

Jean Audran (1667–1756)

“Portrait of Pierre Paul Rubens”, 1710

Technical Details & Condition:

Etching and engraving on heavy laid paper with a watermark, featuring wide margins. This portrait is based on the intermediary design by Jean Marc Nattier (1685–1766) and after the painting of the same composition by Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641).

This portrait serves as the frontispiece to the series of twenty-four plates “La Gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg,” published in Paris by Gaspard Duchange (1662–1757) with royal privilege (Lodewijk XIV). 

The impression is strong, richly inked, and well-printed—near faultless. Aside from minor handling marks, the sheet is in excellent condition.

Dimensions:

• Sheet: 61.2 x 46 cm
• Platemark: 50.3 x 35.5 cm
• Image borderline: 44.1 x 33.3 cm

In-Plate Lettering (below the image borderline):

• Left: “Van Dyck pinxit”
• Centre: “Pierre Paul Rubens. / Naquit à Cologne l’an 1577. Il étoit fils de Jean Rubens, noble d’extraction et Conseitter dan le Senat d’Anvers. It commença / de peindre la Gallerie que l’on donne aupublic en 1620. Fut envoié en Angleterre en qualité d’Ambassadeur du Roi d’Espagne / et mourut a Anvers en 1640. agé de 63. ans. / Se vend a Paris chez G. Duchange Graveur du Roy ruë S^t. Jacques au dessus de la ruë des Mathurins. Avec Privilege.”
• Right: “I.M. Nattier delin. I. Audran Scul 1710.”

References:

• IFF 35; Schneevoogt 162.64; LeBlanc 330; Diepenbroick 21596; Drugulin 17789; Singer 78275
• Rijksmuseum:  https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200151422  
• British Museum (this print): https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1948-0315-3-115
• British Museum (the series): https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Hh-6-1

Price & Shipping:

AU$568 (approximately US$392.47 / €339.95 / £196.53), including worldwide express shipping. Import duties (if any) are the buyer’s responsibility.

If you are interested in acquiring this large historically important portrait of Rubens, please contact me at oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com. I’ll be happy to provide a PayPal invoice for a smooth and secure purchase.

This print has been sold

Pieter de Jode II, “Christ Healing the Lame Man”, c. 1655, after Anthony van Dyck

Pieter de Jode II (also known as Pieter de Iode; Petrus iunior de Jode; Pieter de Jonge Jode) (1606–1670/4)
“Christ Healing the Lame Man”, circa 1655 (1641–1670)

Technical Details & Condition:
Engraving on laid paper, trimmed around the image borderline and writing edge, backed with a sheet of archival-quality washi paper to ensure support and wide margins. This engraving is after the painting by Anthony van Dyck (also known as Sir Anthony van Dyck; Anthoni [Ridder] van Dijck; Antoon van Dijk; Anton van Dyck) (1599–1641) in the Royal Collection, inv.no.RCIN 405325.

In the first state, the print was published by Jan Meyssens (also known as Joannes Meyssens; Johannes Meijssens; Jean Meyssens) (1661–1663), whose name (“Joannes Meÿssens”) is inscribed in the dedication text. In the second, and final state, the print was published by Cornelis Galle I (1576–1650), whose name (“C. Galle”) is inscribed, as shown in this impression.

This is a strong and well-printed engraving, likely to be a lifetime impression, evidenced by the quality of line work showing no sign of wear to the printing plate. Beyond age-toning, the sheet is in excellent condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, or significant stains.

Dimensions:

• Sheet: 27.7 x 36 cm
• Image borderline: 25.2 x 36 cm

Plate Lettering below the image borderline:

• Left: “Ant. Van Dÿck pinxit.”
• Centre (with translation of each line):
  “SVRGE, TOLLE GRABATVM TVVM, ET AMBVLA. Ioan. 5.
  Arise, take up thy bed, and walk. John 5.
  Claro Genere Virtute Ornatissimo Reverendoq[uez], DOMINO D. PHILIPPO BAECX alias FOXIO.
  To the most renowned in lineage and virtue, the most reverend Lord D. Philip Vaecx, also known as Foxio.
  Sancti Anthonÿ Domûs Preceptori Commendatoriq[ue], ac eiusdem Ordinis Commissario Generali, honoris et fauoris ergo, Offert. Joannes Meÿssens.
  Preceptor and Commander of Saint Anthony’s House, and Commissary General of the same Order, for honour and favour, offers Joannes Meÿssens.
  Petrus de Io de Sculpsit.”
• Right: “C. Galle excudit”

References:

• Hollstein (Jode) 11 (FWH Hollstein, 1949, Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca.1450–1700, vol. IX, Amsterdam, Menno Hertzberger, p. 211, cat. no. 11 [II])
• The British Museum describes this print as: “Christ healing the Paralytic; Christ standing at centre, a poor man standing next to him with two figures behind him, all figures half-length; after Anthony van Dyck” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_R-2-16).

Price & Shipping:
AU$366 (approximately US$239.81 / €206.72 / £181.27), including worldwide express shipping. Please note: Import duties and taxes are the buyer’s responsibility.

If you are interested in acquiring this large engraving depicting the biblical event described in the Gospel of John, chapter 5, where Jesus heals a paralytic man unable to walk for 38 years at the Pool of Bethesda, please contact me at oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com. I am happy to provide a secure PayPal invoice for a seamless purchase.

This print has been sold

Paulus Pontius, “Don Alvar Bazan”, 1630–1640, after Anthony van Dyck

Paulus Pontius (aka Paulus du Pont) (1603–1658)

“Don Alvar Bazan” (aka “Portret van de Commandant Don Álvaro de Bazán”; “Don Alvaro de Bazan Marquis of Santa Cruz”) —Spanish Admiral, Don Álvaro de Bazán y Benavides, II Marqués de Santa Cruz de Mudela, I Marqués de Viso (1571–1646), 1630–1640, from the series, “Icones Principum Virorum”, after Anthony van Dyck’s (aka Anthoni [Ridder] van Dijck; Anthony van Dijck; Antoon van Dijk; Anton van Dyck) (1599–1641) grisaille portrait now in the collection of the Duke of Buccleuch, Boughton House, Northamptonshire.

Engraving on fine laid paper, trimmed along the platemark and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 23.3 x 17.3 cm; (image borderline) 21.9 x 16.9 cm.

Lettered in plate below the image borderline in three lines of Latin: “EXCELL.MVS D. DON. ALVAR. BAZAN ... / …/ … GVBERN.”; (left) “Paul. Pontius Sculp.”; (centre) “Ant. van Dyck pinxit”; (right) “Cum priuilegio”.

State iii (of v) before the addition of the initials of the publisher, Gillis Hendricx, in state iv.

Hollstein Dutch 54-3(5); New Hollstein Dutch 17-3(5); Mauquoy-Hendricx (van Dyck) 43-3(5); Van Someren 296.

The British Museum offers the following description of this print: “Portrait of Álváro de Bazán, Marqués de Santa Cruz, half-length in front of a fluted column, directed slightly to left, wearing armour and sash, and holding a baton in his left hand and resting his right on a visored helmet …” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1863-0509-833 [BM inv. no. 1863,0509.833]).

See also the description of this print offered by the Rijksmuseum: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200245490.

Condition: a strong and well-printed (near faultless) impression, trimmed along the plate mark and laid onto a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper providing generously wide margins. Beyond a minor brown mark at upper left and another near the figure’s right eye, the sheet is in an excellent condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions or significant stains.

I am selling this superb engraving with its eye-catching feature of the Admiral’s baton portrayed extending beyond the picture plane, for AU$304 (approximately US$197.58, EUR 172.62 or GBP 145.75), including express mail shipping worldwide. Import duties, if any, are the responsibility of the buyer.

If you are interested in purchasing this very fine impression of a masterwork of engraving, 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 

Wenceslaus Hollar, “Portrait of Johannes van Malderus”, 1645, after Anthony van Dyck

Wenceslaus Hollar (aka Václav Hollar; Wenzel Hollar) (1607–1677)

“Portrait of Johannes van Malderus” (aka “Portrait of Jan van Malderen”)— (1563–1633) the fifth bishop of Antwerp from 1611 until his death, 1645, from the series, “Icones Principum Virorum”, after Anthony van Dyck’s (aka Anthoni [Ridder] van Dijck; Antoon van Dijk; Anton van Dyck; Anthony van Dijck) (1599–1641) painting, a copy of which is held in the Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp. A later impression printed by the Louvre Chalography.

Etching on wove paper with wide margins and the Louvre Chalcography blind stamp below the image borderline at left.

Size: (sheet) 39.5 x 28.9 cm; (plate) 26.9 x 20.5 cm; (image borderline) 24.6 x 20.1 cm.

Lettered in plate below the image borderline: (right) “Antoniius van Dyck pinxit”; (cemtre) “PERILL:^ris et REVEREN:^mus DOMINVS IOANNES MALDERVS/ EPISCOPVS ANTVERPIENSIS et./ wHollar fecit aqia forti, Antuerpiæ A:^o 1645.”; (right) “xcudit.”

State iii (of iii) with the address of the previous publisher, Jan Meyssens (1613–1670) erased.

Pennington 1463 (Richard Pennington 1982, “A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607–1677”, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, p. 254, cat. no. 1463); New Hollstein German (Hollar) 730 (Giulia Bartrum [ed.] 2009-, “The New Hollstein: German engravings, etchings and woodcuts 1400-1700: Wenceslaus Hollar”, vol. III, Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel, Sound and Vision, cat. no. 730); Nagler 91.

The British Museum offers the following description of this print: “Portrait of Jan van Malderus, seated half-length to right, with head turned to look to left; wearing clerical gown, hat and cross, holding a book in his right hand; after Van Dyck …” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1888-0612-27 [inv. 1888,0612.27]).

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression with wide margins. The sheet is in an excellent condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions or significant stains.

I am selling this marvellous etching by one of the most famous of the 17^th century printmakers, for AU$296 (equivalent to approximately US$187.99, EUR 179.44, or GBP 148.79 at the time of listing) and includes Express Mail Service (EMS) postage and handling to any worldwide destination. Please note that any import duties or taxes levied by the destination country are the responsibility of the buyer and are not included in the purchase price. Payment is requested in Australian dollars (AU$296).

If you are interested in purchasing this sensitively executed portrait after Van Dyck, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.