ANTHONY VAN DYCK (1599-1641)
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ANTHONY VAN DYCK (1599-1641)

Jan de Wael

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ANTHONY VAN DYCK (1599-1641)
Jan de Wael
etching and engraving, circa 1630-1641, on laid paper, watermark Double-headed Eagle with Crown and Letters PB (M.-H. 241), a fine, early impression of the second state (of six), with the arm completed in the fourth state overprinted, a very rare and unusual variant, printing with a light plate tone and wiping marks, with foul-biting below the nose, on the lips and in the ruff, trimmed on or just inside the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline on three sides, the blank text border below with an extensive contemporary inscription in brown ink, in very good condition
Sheet 248 x 175 mm.
來源
Adam Vassilievitch Olsoufieff (1721-1784), Saint Petersburg (Lugt 1993).
Dr. Heinrich Wolff (1793-1875), Bonn, Germany (Lugt 1392).
George Ambrose Cardew (b. 1865), London (Lugt 1134).
Jorgen Helm Petersen (b. 1909), Klampenborg, Denmark (Lugt 1474b).
With Colnaghi & Co., London (with their stock numbers c 8494 & 24957 in pencil on the reverse), before 1980.
出版
Mauquoy-Hendrickx 17; New Hollstein 15
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拍品專文

This curious combination of two states printed partially on top of each other is a great rarity and an oddity in the history of printmaking. Van Dyck, not happy with the position and execution of the sitter's arm in the first state, burnished it out in the present second state. In the third state the arm was left unfinished but the sitter's name and artist's address were engraved in the text border below. In the fourth state the arm was completed by Gillis Hendricx.

In the present example, the plate - now in the fourth state - was selectively inked so that only the arm would print and then superimposed onto an existing impression of the second state, without the arm and before letters. The arm was thus added to an earlier state. This procedure was done with remarkable skill although upon close examination double-printing of some lines can be detected. It appears that this difficult process was repeated several times: New Hollstein records a total of seven impressions printed in this manner; the present example is the only one known to remain in private hands. The other examples are in Brussels, Cambridge, Chatsworth, London, Paris, Paris (Duthuit) and Vienna.

This phenomenon of superimposition of the two states, so difficult to detect, was first described by Osbert Barnard in an article in Print Collector's Quarterly in 1938 (Osbert H. Barnard, Van Dyck's Portrait of Jan de Wael, in: Print Collector's Quarterly, no. 25, 1938, p. 156-165).

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