Six Landscape Etchings (Holl. 1-6)

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Johan Lagoor (active 1645-1659)
Six Landscape Etchings (Holl. 1-6)
etchings, circa 1650, on laid paper, each trimmed inside the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderlines, laid down onto two sheets of 18th century paper, occasional paper losses in the corners; with Two Men in a Rocky Landscape and a Small Landscape with a Rider and a Boat, two small etchings by another, unidentified hand, printed in grey
S. 151 x 181 mm. (and smaller) (8)

Literature

Clifford S. Ackley, Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt, exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 28 October 1980-4 January 1981, p. 189, pl. 126.

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Lot Essay

Prints by Johan Lagoor, or Jan de Lagoor, as he is also known, are of the greatest rarity. Hollstein records a total of eight plates, but Clifford S. Ackley in his exhibition catalogue Printmaking in the Age of Rembrandt states that Lagoor's output was in fact limited to only six works (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 28 October 1980-4 January 1981, p. 189, pl. 126.). Whatever the exact figure, not only is his ouevre very small but impressions are also extremely rare. Only two or three of each are known, and of The Houses behind the Trees (Holl. 1), the impression in the British Museum has been until now the only recorded example. The present lot constitutes a unique opportunity to examine this little-known printmaker's work, containing as it does all six undisputed compositions.

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