| Title: |
Wolf (Plate Four) |
| Engraver: |
De Bye, Marcus (The Hague, Holland, 1612 - 1670) |
| Designer: |
Potter, Paulus (1625-1654) |
| Date: |
c. 1660 (Petrus Schenk Edition: c. 1730) |
| Medium: |
Original Etching |
| Note: |
Marcus De Bye or (Marcus De Bie): A seventeenth
century Dutch etcher and painter of animals, Marcus de Bye studied art in
The Hague under Jacob van der Does. He began his career by etching both
landscapes and animal depictions after his teacher but throughout most of
his career he dedicated himself to animal studies after the designs of Markus
Gerard and, most particularly, Paulus Potter. This artist is also listed under the name (Marcus De Bie). |
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Paulus Potter (1625-1654) is in many eyes Holland's most heralded animal
artist. His art is all the more remarkable considering that he died at the
age of twenty-nine and thus his oeuvre is small in number. Both a painter
and printmaker he created only eighteen etchings. Shortly after Potter's
death, Marcus De Bye began etching sets of animal studies after this master's
drawings. The first set was published around 1657 and at least five others
followed based solely upon Potter's designs. The sizes for the series ranged
from eight to sixteen plates. |
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This original etching entitled, "Wolf" hails from a set of eight plates depicting both
lions and wolves and was initially published around 1660. Like all of De
Bye's etched art after Paulus Potter it is a beautifully rendered study
from Holland's golden age of art. |
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The publishing history for Marcus de Bye's etchings after Paulus
Potter is well documented. Rare first state impressions lack the address
of N. Visscher on the frontis-piece plate and were printed in only a handful
of impressions. In the second state impressions Nicolaas Visscher's name
appears. This major publisher printed editions of Marcus de Bye's sets from approximately
1660 to 1700. In 1726 Petrus Schenk acquired the plates and printed sets bearing
his name along the lower margins of the frontis piece etchings. This constitutes
the third and final state. Lion, the frontis-piece etching, bears Schenk's
name and thus this impression of Wolf, which was acquired along with the frontis
piece, is from the third state. |
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Because these plates were very popular later impressions exist. One can,
however, determine an earlier impression both by the paper and by the clarity
of the etched line. In the case of this original etching it is printed in
fine laid paper bearing the watermark of the foolscap with five bells. This
hand-made paper was used in both Holland and Flanders during the seventeenth
and early eighteenth centuries. In this impression one can also see very
little deterioration in the etched lines and therefore it was printed from
the original plate around 1730. |
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The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco houses a large collection of prints
by Marcus de Bye (including an impression of this original etching) and
illustrates them on its image base. |
| Raisonne: |
Adam Bartsch, Le Peintre-Graveur, Vienna, 1803-1821 (reprinted, 1920). |
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Catalogue #36, Third and Final State. |
| Size: |
5 1/4 X 6 3/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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Matted With 100% Archival Materials |
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Price: $365.00 US |
| Condition: |
Printed on fine laid paper with small margins extending about 1/4 of an
inch past the border on all sides. Apart from several minute rust spots
this etching is a finely printed impression showing little plate wear and
is in very good condition throughout. Wolf (Plate Four) represents a superb,
original example of the seventeenth century animal art of Paulus Potter
and Marcus De Bye (Marcus De Bie). |
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