Anthony Van Dyck as a printmaker by Carl Depauw, Ger Luijten on Mullen Books

Anthony Van Dyck as a printmaker

Depauw, Carl and Ger Luijten et al.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 1999. Hardcover. rown cloth with two-tone pictorial dustjacket. 400 pp. Numerous color & bw plates. VG/VG as new. Item #170082
ISBN: 9780847822355

Issued in conjunction with several 1999-2000 exhibitions featuring prints rendered by Flemish Baroque artist Anthony Van Dyck (1599-1641). "Discusses Van Dyck's first acquaintance with the medium in Rubens' workshop and illuminates the genesis of the Iconography, a portrait gallery of illustrious contemporaries. All his etchings are catalogued together with preparatory drawings and grisailles, as well as proofs containing corrective flourishes. Furthermore a selection is made of the prints after paintings by Van Dyck. A number of them were the initiative of the artist himself, others were produced on behalf of publishers and engravers. Works from the eighteenth century are included to illustrate the influence Van Dyck exerted until long after his death -- even in France and England." (back cover) With three thematic and illustrated essays. The annotated and illustrated catalogue addresses 52 prints. Includes a glossary and a bibliography. Contents as follows: 'With the hand' : the collecting of Van Dyck prints / Ger Luijten and Saskia Sombogaart -- Prints in progress : proofs in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Ger Luijten -- On feathers, candles and wet rags : the etching technique used by Van Dyck and his contemporaries / Ad Stijnman -- 'A pupil who could translate his inventions into drawings to have them cut in copper' : Anthony van Dyck and printmaking in Rubens' studio / Carl Depauw -- The Iconography : Van Dyck's portraits in print / Ger Luijten -- 'Through prints of one's art, one may become better known' : prints by and after Van Dyck up to 1641 / Ger Luijten -- The inimitable Van Dyck in copper : prints from 1640 to 1800 / Ger Luijten -- The cast for the production of Van Dyck prints / Erik Duverger & Danielle Maufort.