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Drawing lessons for children and students

[BLOEMAERT, Abraham (BLOEMAART)].
De teekenkunde, in 24 plaaten, ten gebruike van akademiën en schoolen. L'art du dessin, exposé en 24 planches, à l'usage des académies & collèges.

Engraved vignette on title by R. Vinkeles after D. Kuiper, 24 numbered engraved plates (ca. 160 x 115 mm), nrs. 7-12, 14-16 and 19-24 signed with monogram L(uca). C(iamberlano). with drawing models of parts of the human body, such as eyes, ears, noses, faces, hands, feet, arms, legs, busts and heads of men, women and little children, including a large illustration of an ox's head viewed from the front with the attributes of painting and drawing behind the ox's left ear.

Engraved vignette on title by R. Vinkeles after D. Kuiper, 24 numbered engraved plates (ca. 160 x 115 mm), nrs. 7-12, 14-16 and 19-24 signed with monogram L(uca). C(iamberlano). with drawing models of parts of the human body, such as eyes, ears, noses, faces, hands, feet, arms, legs, busts and heads of men, women and little children, including a large illustration of an ox's head viewed from the front with the attributes of painting and drawing behind the ox's left ear.

Engraved vignette on title by R. Vinkeles after D. Kuiper, 24 numbered engraved plates (ca. 160 x 115 mm), nrs. 7-12, 14-16 and 19-24 signed with monogram L(uca). C(iamberlano). with drawing models of parts of the human body, such as eyes, ears, noses, faces, hands, feet, arms, legs, busts and heads of men, women and little children, including a large illustration of an ox's head viewed from the front with the attributes of painting and drawing behind the ox's left ear.

Engraved vignette on title by R. Vinkeles after D. Kuiper, 24 numbered engraved plates (ca. 160 x 115 mm), nrs. 7-12, 14-16 and 19-24 signed with monogram L(uca). C(iamberlano). with drawing models of parts of the human body, such as eyes, ears, noses, faces, hands, feet, arms, legs, busts and heads of men, women and little children, including a large illustration of an ox's head viewed from the front with the attributes of painting and drawing behind the ox's left ear.

Engraved vignette on title by R. Vinkeles after D. Kuiper, 24 numbered engraved plates (ca. 160 x 115 mm), nrs. 7-12, 14-16 and 19-24 signed with monogram L(uca). C(iamberlano). with drawing models of parts of the human body, such as eyes, ears, noses, faces, hands, feet, arms, legs, busts and heads of men, women and little children, including a large illustration of an ox's head viewed from the front with the attributes of painting and drawing behind the ox's left ear.



Amsterdam, W. Holtrop, 1800. 4to. Contemporary blue boards with printed title. Engraved vignette on title by R. Vinkeles after D. Kuiper, 24 numbered engraved plates (ca. 160 x 115 mm), nrs. 7-12, 14-16 and 19-24 signed with monogram L(uca). C(iamberlano). with drawing models of parts of the human body, such as eyes, ears, noses, faces, hands, feet, arms, legs, busts and heads of men, women and little children, including a large illustration of an ox's head viewed from the front with the attributes of painting and drawing behind the ox's left ear. (4) pp.

Third (?) edition of a famous model drawing book by Abraham Bloemaert (1564-1651), a very influential and prolific Dutch Mannerist painter, print maker, and art teacher. After a journey to France, he went to Amsterdam in 1591 and three years later he seetled finely in Utrecht where he founded the Guild of St Luke. The plates are accompanied by two pages of text in French and Dutch and intended for (art-)students, however this leaf is not recorded in the copy of the library of the Rijksmuseum.
This series of plates was firstly published under the title 'Nieut teeckenboeck inhoudende alle de principaelste fondamenten om te leeren teeckenen (Amsterdam, F. de Wit, ca. 1700) and later by Hendrick Bosch in 1723. Both editions contain an engraved title and 23 plates. The title is after a drawing by Bloemaert, the 23 other plates are after A. Carracci's drawings and partly originally engraved by L. Ciamberlano (1586-1641). Some of these plates were also published in Ciamberlano's 'Fondamento del latre sic desgenia ... Fondamenten der Teyckenkonst ... (Amsterdam, C.J. Visscher 1651).
For his numerous pupils Bloemaert, assisted by his sons, published in about 1650 an very extensive drawing book, Artis Apellae liber, which became very famous and was republished, selected from and copied after for centuries. At the hand of these models Bloemaert taught gifted pupils like Hendrik ter Brugghen, Gerard van Honthorst, Andries and Jan Both, Dirk Hals, Hendrik de Keyser, and Paulus Moreelse with whom he founded a Drawing Academy in Utrecht. His son Frederik Bloemaert often engraved after his father's drawings, and so did Hendrik Goltzius, Jan Saenredam, Jacob Matham, and others. His model book was  originally based on the idea that the art of drawing could be learned by imitating the good example. Bloemaert also believed  that the apprentice would be able to achieve a good representation  of the human figure by first learning to draw the individual parts  of the human body from his book. An early nineteenth/century edition of this manual for school boys and students, published under the famous name of Bloemaert, testifying of the broad and pervasive influence this artist still had at the time. 
Good copy, with ownership's entry in ink in ms. on inside front cover: 'B. de Langhe'.- (Binding dam. & re/backed; some water stains, first plate soiled and stained).
Bolten, Dutch and Flemish drawing books, p. 152 (second ed. 1723); Bridson-White E45 (first ed. Amsterdam, F. de Wit, ca. 1700) and E49 (other ed.); Cat. Kunsthist. Bibl. Rijksmus. Amst. I, p. 222 (the only other copy of this edition we could trace); Thieme- Becker IV, pp. 125-6; not in STCN .

Related Subjects: Drawing & Painting  Engravings  Modelbooks 

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