JONAS ZEUNER (1727 - 1814); a verre églomisé, Amsterdam, a view to the east-north-east over the Singel towards the Munttoren with the inn De Munt, the Muntsluis with the Reguliersbreestraat to the right, the Binnenamstel in the background, signed Zeuner. fec. and dated 1786 lower left, framed

FOUR VERRE EGLOMISES BY JONAS ZEUNER (1727-1814) Jonas Zeuner was born in Kassel (Germany), where his family has been working as weavers since several generations. He was registered as a 'canonnier' in the army for his marriage in 1750. As recorded by Rudy Eswarin, A Group of Portraits by Zeuner, Journal of Glass Studies, 19, New York, 1977, pp. 127-133, Zeuner came to live and work in Amsterdam shortly after his marriage and stayed there until his dead in 1814, interrupted for a period of possibly one year in 1778, when working in London. He may have returned to England a second period sometime during the years 1802-1806. The technique for which Zeuner became so well-known is called verre églomisé after the French 18th century encadreur Jean-Baptiste Glomy, who used the technique for his glassed mounts. This technique has already been described in the 14th century by the Italian Cennino Cennini, Il Libro dell'arte o Trattato della pittura, Padua, undated (reprint Florence 1859), part 172, p. 123, in Italy it later became known as 'agglomizzato'. The technique is basically brought into practice by pasting leaves of gold and silver behind glass, engraving these, and painting the background afterwards. In later times it was much used in France and Germany, often for the decoration of furniture, but Zeuner appears to be the first specialising in pictures using this technique.

細節

JONAS ZEUNER (1727 - 1814); a verre églomisé, Amsterdam, a view to the east-north-east over the Singel towards the Munttoren with the inn De Munt, the Muntsluis with the Reguliersbreestraat to the right, the Binnenamstel in the background, signed Zeuner. fec. and dated 1786 lower left, framed
33.5 x 42.5 cm

展覽

Amsterdam, Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Jonas Zeuner 1727 - 1814, Zijn wereld weerspiegeld in zilver en goud, 21 May-14 August 1994 Catalogue No. 13 and ill.)

拍品專文

This work by Zeuner is the pendant of the following lot

Of this work by Zeuner three other versions are known of which one was sold at Christie's London on 19 November 1987, lot 11, with illustration (Catalogue No. 12) and another one at Christie's New York on 17 October 1992, lot 151, with illustration (Catalogue No. 14)

cf. an anonymous engraving in Jan Wagenaar, Amsterdam in zijne opkomst, aanwas enz. beschreven door Jan Wagenaar. Amsterdam 1760-1767, dl. V, p. 60, or an etching (1772) by Willem Writs (1732-1786)?

See colour illustration