Nicolaes
Berchem (aka Nicolaes Pietersz. Berrighem; Niclas Berghem; Claes Berighem)
(1621/22–1683)
“Three Horses”
(aka “Group of Horses” [TIB title]; “Drie Paarden”; “Les Chevaux”), c.1679/80, plate
2 from the series of six plates showing different animals, “Dieren” (aka “Animals”;
“Set of the Animals” [Hollstein title 13–18]).
Pieter Biesboer
et al. (2006) explains that this print “belongs to a four-part series of
animals after drawings made around 1679” (p. 156). Biesboer also advises in the
same commentary note: “The design for this etching is in Paris (Musée du
Louvre, Rothschild Collection; Stefes 1997, no. 17)”. Moreover, the “reclining
horse is a recurring motif in Berchem’s work” (ibid.).
Etching on laid
paper (with a partial watermark) with full margins and binding holes in the
left margin. The image has been lightly inscribed with a squared grid in
sanguine chalk and pencil numbers by a past collector—possibly for copying the
design.
Size: (sheet) 22.8
x 29.2 cm; (platemark) 12 x 17 cm.
Inscribed in
plate along the lower edge: (centre) “cum Privilegio”; (right of centre) “[artist’s
ligature monogram] NB.”; (right corner) “2”.
State iii (of iii)
with the addition of the artist’s monogram (“NB”).
TIB 7.14 (Otto
Naumann 1978, “The Illustrated Bartsch: Netherlandish Artists”, vol. 7, New
York, Abaris Books, p. 60, cat. no. 14); Hollstein Dutch 14.III.
See also:
Pieter Biesboer et al. 2006, “Nicolaes Berchem: In the Light of Italy”,
Haarlem, Ludion, p. 156, cat. no. P87.
The British
Museum offers the following description of this print: “Two standing horses,
one with its head on the back of the other, and a recumbent horse in the
foreground, a goat between them, a shepherd to the left, a tree to the right;
from a series of six prints showing different animals” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Sheepshanks-3869).
I am selling
this interesting etching showing the original binding holes in the left margin
and how the print was used by what may have been an early art student who has
lightly gridded the image for copying using sanguine coloured chalk and numbered the squares at right in pencil—for the
total cost of AU$304 (currently US$209.99/EUR189.62/GBP158.05 at the time of
posting this listing) including Express Mail (EMS) postage and handling to
anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by
some countries. Note that payment is in Australian dollars (AU$304) as this is
my currency.
If you are
interested in purchasing this sensitively executed and subtly animated etching,
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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