Ornament Print with two Men sawing, from: Black Ornaments

Details

JEAN TOUTIN (1578-1644)
Ornament Print with two Men sawing, from: Black Ornaments
etching, 1619, on laid paper, without watermark, a very good impression of this extremely rare print, a thread margin at left, trimmed fractionally inside the platemark at right, trimmed partially into the subject above and below, a short tear at left, a hard crease at the upper left corner, the number 50 inscribed in ink at upper left, some minor stains
Sheet 98 x 78 mm.

Provenance

With Paul McCarron, New York.
Acquired from the above on 21 April 2004.

Literature

P. Fuhring, Ornament Prints in the Rijksmuseum II, The Seventeenth Century, Rotterdam 2004, cat. 1834, p. 316-17.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This is the second plate from Jean Toutin's Black Ornaments series. The set appears to have originally consisted of 12 plates, only six of which are known today. The present impression, with the plate number 2 and the date 1619 in the lower subject trimmed off, corresponds to the impression in the Rijksmuseum, which also holds other prints from the series. A print of the same composition but with small differences in the detail (Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam) is presumably a near-contemporary copy after Toutin's original.

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