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VENUS HONOURED BY NYMPH
Venus sits on a throne at left with her arm around Cupid and reaches for a piece of fruit in a basket offered to her by a kneeling nymph; two other nymphs and a satyr proffer baskets and a putti hovers overhead dropping flowers; in the foreground is a large column and in the distance is a temple-like structure; after Spranger
Engraving
Design: Bartholomeus Spranger
Published by: Harmen Jansz. Muller
Print made by: Jan Muller
Lettered below in six lines "En Veneri ... peius & angue". In lower left corner "B [us] Sprangers inventor. / JMuller sculptor." and at right "Harman Muller excud. / Amsterodami".
With partly erased publishers address of Cornelis Danckertz.(1603-1656)
With publishers address of Clement de Jonghe.(1624-1677)
New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) 73.(The Muller Dynasty (Jan Harmensz Muller))
Bartsch III.288.73
Literature: H. Leeflang, "'Sine Cerere et Baccho friget Venus' 'after' Bartholomeus Spranger: An early parody of style", in A.W.A. Boschloo et al. (eds.), "Aemulatio: Imitation, emulation and invention in Netherlandish art from 1500 to 1800. Essays in honor of Eric Jan Sluijter", Amsterdam, 2011, pp.89-102.
Additional Information
| SKU | abr521 |
|---|---|
| Picture Size | 28,20 x 20,20 cm |
| Specification | |
| technic | Engraving |
| Artist | Jan Muller |
| period | 16th Century |
| School | Dutch |
| subject | Mythology |
| rating | ***** |
Throughout his life, Jan Harmensz. Muller made drawings, engravings, and paintings. He also worked at his family's successful publishing business, The Gilded Compasses. His father, a printmaker and art dealer, first trained him. Hendrick Goltzius's Mannerist figure style also profoundly influenced Muller. Whether he actually apprenticed to Goltzius in Haarlem or learned by copying Goltzius's prints and drawings is unknown. Muller had contact with many artists practicing in Prague, which was a flourishing cultural center. This contact probably occurred as the result of Muller's ties to the Dutch sculptor Adriaen de Vries, who was working at Emperor Rudolf II's court there. De Vries and Muller were related by marriage. Though he made engravings based on his own designs, most seem to have been after works by Haarlem Mannerists such as Goltzius or by Prague artists, including de Vries and Hans von Aachen. Muller spent 1594 through 1602 in Naples and Rome, making engravings. Upon returning to Amsterdam, he abandoned this work and began managing his father's publishing business, which he had inherited. He managed The Gilded Compasses for the remainder of his life. Muller's will and inventories show that he also painted, though only one painting is firmly attributed to him today.
Inventor
Bartholomeus Spranger (1546-1611)
Flemish painter, draughtsman, sculptor and etcher who became a painter to the imperial court in Prague. His unique style combining elements of Netherlandish painting and Italian influences, in particular the Roman Mannerists, had an important influence on other artists in Prague and beyond.
He worked on wall paintings in various churches. In Rome he became, like El Greco, a protégé of Giulio Clovio. Here he also met Karel van Mander who would later include a biography of Spranger in the Schilder-boeck. Pope Pius V appointed him court painter in 1570. He was summoned to Vienna by Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, who died soon after his arrival in 1576. But his successor Rudolf II was even more keen to employ him, and in 1581 he was appointed court painter and also valet de chambre, the court having moved its seat to Prague, where he stayed until his death there in 1611, shortly before Rudolf was deposed. Rudolf arranged a wealthy marriage for him, and his house was a centre for artists in Prague.
Spranger's paintings for Rudolf mostly depict mythological nudes in various complex poses, with some connection to the Emperor's esoteric Late-Renaissance philosophical ideas. His paintings are the most characteristic of the final phase of Northern Mannerism. By far the best collection is in Vienna. His drawings have great energy, in a very free technique.
Aegidius Sadeler, who lived in his house in Prague for some time, and Hendrik Goltzius made engravings of his paintings, spreading Spranger's fame around Europe.
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