Goyen, Jan van (Leiden 1586 – The Hague 1656). The Path along the Wide River. Front left above of a sluice family with child and dog, the man mounted. Right of this group highly loaded horse-drawn vehicle, on the bank in front and set back two boats with occupied fishermen. The strip of the horizon limited laterally by a mill and church resp., in-between a pointed steeple and a property under high trees. Engraving/etching by Jan de Visscher (Amsterdam about 1636 – after 1692). Inscribed: I: van Goyen inventor. / I: de Visscher fecit. / 11. 12.6 x 20.9 cm.

Wessely 69; Le Blanc 64. – Comp. Beck, van Goyen, Zeichnungen 497 with ills. – Plate 11 of the equal-sized 12-sheet “exquisitely fine suite” (Weigel 947, 1838) of canal + village landscapes “Regiunculae amoenissimae eleganter delineatae” worked in reverse after van Goyen (Nagler 62; Wurzbach 60, both Visscher), whose “bearing for Dutch landscape painting of the 17^th century, his standing as artist … (are) that known they shall not be subject of this book” (Beck I, 1972, p. 11). And Visscher himself “supplied … highly valuable sheets, either working with just the needle or combined with the chisel” (Nagler 1850).

Partial feeble margin fox spots and black tiny print stains at the back barely worth mentioning aside the impeccable copy of the M B Dubbel collection (not in Lugt) with its small black collection round stamp at the back at the lower edge. – Figurative (leaping lion?) watermark with word mark. – As remarkable for oldmaster prints with fine margin of 5 mm round about.
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