Etching, dry needle/paper, state III, 44.5 x 60 cm (light passe-partout)
Under the composition in the middle: D'après le Tableau de J. Wynants. Appartenant à l'Editeur Dom. Artaria à Mannheim; left: J. Wynants pinxit; right: J.J. De Boissieu sculpsit aqua forti 1806.
state of preservation very good
LITERATURE:
- J.-J. De Boissieu. Catalogue raisonné de son oeuvre par lui-même, Paris-Lyon 1878, item cat. 133, pp. 154-155
Jean Jacques de Boissieu was an engraver active in Lyon. His graphic work, which was dominated by landscape representations, was very popular in France and Germany. The work on display is an example of a high-class reproduction engraving, made in the etching technique in which de Bossieu excelled. The image according to which the engraving was made was painted in 1673 and is kept in the Fine Arts Museum in San Francisco. Commissioned by publisher Domenic Artaria, "Landscape with a Hunter" was a pendant to an engraving according to Jacob van Ruysdael, also made by de Boissieu.
