A peasant family seated around a hearth, after Adriaen van Ostade (L.N.P. 59)

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Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (Amsterdam 1726-1798)
A peasant family seated around a hearth, after Adriaen van Ostade (L.N.P. 59)
and The ruins of Egmond Castle at Egmond aan den Hoef, after Jacob van Ruisdael (L.N.P. 109), and A ruined cottage, after Jacob van Ruisdael, the etching by Cornelis Brouwer (active 1781-1802) after Ploos van Amstel's drawing of the original (L.N.B. 110)
etchings with mezzotint and aquatint, scattered pale foxing, lesser defects
S. 240 x 220 mm.; 198 x 298 mm. and 196 x 270 mm. (3)

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Lot Essay

From Ploos van Amstel's monumental series of etchings after drawings in his collection and printed in a technique of his own devising that created extremely faithful facsimiles. The original series of sixty-seven plates was continued after Ploos' death by Christiaan Josi (d. 1828) who added a further fifty plates, mainly after drawings not originally in Ploos' colection, including the two after Jacob van Ruisdael in the present lot. The series is discussed in detail in T. Laurentius, J.W. Niemeijer and G. Ploos van Amstel, Cornelis Ploos van Amstel-Kunstverzamelaar en prentuitgever, Assen, 1980, abbreviated as L.N.B. above.

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