Pieter Stevens
(Mechelen/Malines 1567-after 1624) A view of ancient Rome, ruins and a figure staffage in the foreground, pen, brown and grey ink, red chalk, wash, on laid paper, inscribed “22te roome” with pen and brown ink at centre upper margin, 17,5 x 28,3 cm, mounted, framed, (Sch)
Peter Stevens was first and foremost a landscape painter and draftsman. He worked in Antwerp until 1589 and in 1594 he was appointed court painter to Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. Many of his landscape paintings during his imperial service in Prague were reproduced in „pietra dura“ in the court workshop. The finished Florentine mosaics served for decoration for furnitures. The landscapes were also reproduced in print series by Hendrik Hondius und Aegidius Sadeler and were published as engraved serie of romantic Bohemian forest landscapes.
The present drawing is part of a series of views made in the vicinity of Brussels, Rome, Naples and Prague. which Fifty-three sheets could have been identified. The drawings may have been preliminary for a series of prints by Aegidius Sadeler, who had etched a similar series after Jan Brueghel in 1606. Breughel may have influenced Stevens who combined pen and dark brown or black ink in contrast with soft tones in the washes. Due to the stylistic resemblances with Breughel’s Prague drawings of the same time the present sheet may date to 1604.
Esperta: Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz
Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz
+43-1-515 60-546
astrid.schierz@dorotheum.at
08.11.2012 - 16:00
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Pieter Stevens
(Mechelen/Malines 1567-after 1624) A view of ancient Rome, ruins and a figure staffage in the foreground, pen, brown and grey ink, red chalk, wash, on laid paper, inscribed “22te roome” with pen and brown ink at centre upper margin, 17,5 x 28,3 cm, mounted, framed, (Sch)
Peter Stevens was first and foremost a landscape painter and draftsman. He worked in Antwerp until 1589 and in 1594 he was appointed court painter to Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. Many of his landscape paintings during his imperial service in Prague were reproduced in „pietra dura“ in the court workshop. The finished Florentine mosaics served for decoration for furnitures. The landscapes were also reproduced in print series by Hendrik Hondius und Aegidius Sadeler and were published as engraved serie of romantic Bohemian forest landscapes.
The present drawing is part of a series of views made in the vicinity of Brussels, Rome, Naples and Prague. which Fifty-three sheets could have been identified. The drawings may have been preliminary for a series of prints by Aegidius Sadeler, who had etched a similar series after Jan Brueghel in 1606. Breughel may have influenced Stevens who combined pen and dark brown or black ink in contrast with soft tones in the washes. Due to the stylistic resemblances with Breughel’s Prague drawings of the same time the present sheet may date to 1604.
Esperta: Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz
Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz
+43-1-515 60-546
astrid.schierz@dorotheum.at
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| Asta: | Disegni e stampe fino al 1900, acquarelli e miniature |
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| Data: | 08.11.2012 - 16:00 |
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