Jan
Sadeler I (aka Johann Sadeler;
Johannes Sadeler) (1550–1600)
“Saint
Spiridion” (TIB title) (aka “Spiridon of Cyprus as
Hermit”; “St Spiridionis”; “Spiridon van Cyprus als
Kluizenaar”), (1583–1588 [Rijksmuseum dates]), plate 15 from the series of 25 engravings,
“Oraculum Anachoreticum: Hermits” (aka “Lives of
the Hermits”; “Mannelijke kluizenaars”; “Solitudo
Sive Vitae Patrum Eremicolarum”, after a lost drawing by Maarten de Vos (aka
Marten de Vos; Maerten de Vos) (1532–1603), published by Raphael Sadeler I
(1560/61–1628/32) and/or Jan Sadeler I
in Antwerp.
Engraving
on laid paper with wide margins backed with a support sheet.
Inscribed
in plate within the image borderline: (lower left) “Sadel: exc:”
Lettered
in plate below the image borderline: “Tirones in monte cauo pia scripta docere,/
Et labor et studium SPIRIDIONIS erat.// 15// Vincere quo prauos affectus carne
subarta/ Possent, ac structos dæmonis arte dosls.”
Size:
(sheet) 25.2 x 33.3 cm; (plate) 16.9 x 20.7 cm; (image borderline) 15.4 x 20.3
cm.
State
i (of ii) before the plate number (“15”) is effaced in state ii.
TIB
7001. 363 (Isabelle de Ramaix 2001, “The Illustrated Bartsch”, vol. 70, Part 2
[Supplement], New York, Abaris Books, p. 196, cat. no. [7001].363); Hollstein
(Johann Sadeler I) 393 (Dieuwke de Hoop Scheffer [comp.] 1980, “Dutch and
Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450–1700: Aegidius Sadeler to
Raphael Sadeler II: text”, vol. 21, Amsterdam, Van Gendt & Co, p. 148, cat.
no. 392); Hollstein (Vos) 437 (Christiaan Schuckman [comp.] 1996, “Dutch and
Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts ca. 1450–1700: Maarten de Vos: text”,
vol. 44, Rotterdam, Sound and Vision Rijksprentenkabinet, p. 205, cat. no. 979);
Edquist 71A.b (p. 61).
The Rijksmuseum
offers the following description of this print: (transl.) “St. Spiridon of
Cyprus in front of a cave in the desert. He lies against a rock and reads a
bible. In the cave, three monks are reading from a bible” (http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.502758).
See
also the description of this print offered by the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen:
https://www.boijmans.nl/en/collection/artworks/119860/spiridionis.
Condition:
a richly inked and well-printed, lifetime impression (based on the quality of
line showing no sign of wear to the printing plate, traces of the guidelines
for the lettering and its state before the plate number is erased) with wide
margins around the platemark and laid upon an archival support sheet of
millennium quality washi paper. There is a flattened and restored corner crease
in the margin at lower right and pale ink numbers from a previous collector below
the platemark at right; otherwise, the sheet is in a very good condition for
its considerable age with no significant stains or foxing.
I am
selling this sensitively executed and very beautiful engraving by one of the
most famous of the Flemish old masters showing Saint Spiridion, who was the Bishop
of Trinitonte and retired to the life of a hermit until he died in 348—note
that the Latin text below the image helps to explain his role as portrayed: “To
teach the disciples pious writings on the cavernous/hollow mountain … [so that]
they could conquer the weak affections of the flesh, and subdue the devil's
artifice”—for AU$304 (currently US$203.19/EUR183.85/GBP161.84 at the time of
posting this print) including Express Mail (EMS) 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 superb lifetime impression of museum quality,
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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