Jan Collaert II (aka Hans
Collaert; Jan Baptist I Collaert) (c1561–c1620)
“Hunter Caught in Pit” (aka “Inexperienced Hunter Attacked by Snakes” [BM title]; “Jager gevangen in kuil” [Rijksmuseum title]), c1596, from the series of 104 engraved plates of hunting scenes, “Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium” (With wild beasts, birds, fish), after the design by Jan van der Straet (mostly known as Joannes Stradanus) (1523–1605), with text by Cornelis Kiliaan (1528–1607), published by Philips Galle (1537–1612) in Antwerp.
Engraving on laid paper trimmed with
small margins around the image borderline at top and sides and retaining the
text box, backed with a support sheet.
Size: (sheet) 19.9 x 27 cm; (image
borderline) 18.3 x 26.7 cm
Inscribed on plate within the image
borderline: (lower left corner) “Ioan. Stradanus invent. / I. Collaert Sculp. Phls
Galle exc.”.
Lettered on plate below the image
borderline in two lines of Latin in two columns: “Sæpe quidem .../ …// …/ ..esca
Colubris.”
Lifetime impression; state i (of iv)
before numbering.
New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish)
1517.I (3) (The Collaert Dynasty); New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) 504.I (4)
(Johannes Stradanus); Baroni Vannucci 1997 693.42 (Alessandra Baroni Vannucci
1997, “Jan van der Straet, detto Giovanni Stradano, flandrus pictor et
inventor”, Milan, Jandi Sapi Editori)
The Rijksmuseum offers the following
description of this print:
(transl.) “In a landscape hunted deer
and rabbits. Near a few ruins a careless hunter has fallen into a pit with
snakes. Although his friends try to pull him out of the pit with a rope, their
attempts are too late. The man is bitten and strangled by snakes. The print has
a Latin caption and is part of a series about hunting scenes.”
See also the description offered by the
British Museum:
“Inexperienced Hunter Attacked by
Snakes; in the centre foreground, a hunter is attacked by snakes in the vaults
of a ruined building, which is seen beyond; above, three companions attempt to
rescue him with a rope; in the left mid ground, a hunter on horseback chases a
deer, while two hounds pursue a rabbit in the left foreground” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1620278&partId=1&people=128853&peoA=128853-2-60&page=1)
Regarding other plates in this series,
see Alessandra Baroni & Manfred Sellink 2012, “Stradanus 1523–1605: Court Artist
of the Medici", Turnhout, Brepols Publishers, pp.245–58, cat. nos. 32-49.
Condition: richly inked and well printed
early impression trimmed with small margins around the image borderline
(retaining the text box) and laid on a support sheet of
archival (millennium quality) washi paper. There are small losses and restorations
(virtually invisible).
I am selling this curious scene of a
hunter who has fallen into a subterranean chamber and is being bitten by
leaping snakes as he is hauled up on a rope by rescuers for the total cost of
AU$286 (currently US$189.08/EUR167.75/GBP147.69 at the time of posting 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
alarming and amazing image created only 84 years after Michelangelo finished
work on the Sistine Chapel, 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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