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Jacques d'Arthois; artist
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Wenceslaus (or Wenzel) Hollar (1607-77) was an Anglo-Czech artist, and one of the greatest and most prolific printmakers of the 17th century. His art reveals his immensely wide subject range, and reflects the priorities of his time: religious prints, mythology, satire, landscapes, geography and maps, portraits, women, costumes, sports, natural history (including caterpillars, moths and snails), architecture, heraldry, numismatics, ornaments, title-pages and initials.
This etching of a lush, wooded summer landscape is categorised by Hollar expert Richard Pennington as 'landscapes after famous painters'. It represents the interface of the leading Flemish Baroque landscape painter Jacques d'Arthois who painted the original, Hollar who made the etching and Hollar's friend Petrus van Avont, the printer/publisher. It dates from Hollar's period in Antwerp, where he spent several years in the mid-17th century, to escape from the political instability caused by the English Civil War.
Dr Mark Stocker Curator, Historical International Art June 2017
http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/tag/wenceslaus-hollar/
Richard Pennington, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etched Work of Wenceslaus Hollar 1607-1677 (Cambridge, 1982), p. 209 (no. 1208).
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