Artist: Herman van Swanevelt (1603 – 1655) was a Dutch painter and etcher from the Baroque era.
Title: A rest on the flight into Egypt.
Signed and inscribed in plate: Herman van Swanevelt Inventor fecit.
Dimensions: Image 8" x 10 1/2". Sheet 10 3/8" x 12 3/4".
Publisher: Presumably the same publisher as for the group of Swanevelts from our collection. Our assumption is based on the fact that all engravings are printed on the same paper.
Date: 1620-1655.
Materials and Techniques: etching and engraving on wove paper.
Watermark: "voyage en autriche". C. 1808. The same paper was used in 1808 - 1814 for publishing: Laborde, Alexandre Louis Joseph de. Description des nouveaux jardins de la France. Paris 1808-1814. (Robin Halvas Ltd. Catalog III. London, 1995).
Provenance: The Estate of George "Yorgo" Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute, and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1965-2000.
Condition: Dents to margins, soiling. The signs of aging are appropriate for the time. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Catalog Raisonne: Bartsch. Le Peintre graveur... Vol II. p. 307. No. 99.
Part of: Four landscapes with the Holy Family on their Flight into Egypt.
Museums and Libraries: The British Museum Sheepshanks.2277.
Art Movements, Periods & Schools: Dutch School XVII C.
Note: This entry incorporates text from the catalog entry and uses the catalog description of the same item from the collection of the British Museum.
This is a late impression on wove paper with a watermark.