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First edition of a classic manual on the art of painting

HOOGSTRAETEN, Samuel van.
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With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, portrait of the author by J. Oudaan, 9 richly engraved separate frontispieces of the nine muses heading each part, 4 fine engraved anatomical plates, 2 folding, and 4 engravings on the play of light and shadows in text, all designed and engraved by the author.

With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, portrait of the author by J. Oudaan, 9 richly engraved separate frontispieces of the nine muses heading each part, 4 fine engraved anatomical plates, 2 folding, and 4 engravings on the play of light and shadows in text, all designed and engraved by the author.

With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, portrait of the author by J. Oudaan, 9 richly engraved separate frontispieces of the nine muses heading each part, 4 fine engraved anatomical plates, 2 folding, and 4 engravings on the play of light and shadows in text, all designed and engraved by the author.

With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, portrait of the author by J. Oudaan, 9 richly engraved separate frontispieces of the nine muses heading each part, 4 fine engraved anatomical plates, 2 folding, and 4 engravings on the play of light and shadows in text, all designed and engraved by the author.

With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, portrait of the author by J. Oudaan, 9 richly engraved separate frontispieces of the nine muses heading each part, 4 fine engraved anatomical plates, 2 folding, and 4 engravings on the play of light and shadows in text, all designed and engraved by the author.



Rotterdam, F. van Hoogstraeten, 1678. 4to. Modern green morocco, spine gilt in six compartments with gilt title and date. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, portrait of the author by J. Oudaan, 9 richly engraved separate frontispieces of the nine muses heading each part, 4 fine engraved anatomical plates, 2 folding, and 4 engravings on the play of light and shadows in text, all designed and engraved by the author. (12), 361, (7) pp.

First edition of a classic manual on the art of painting by the author and artist, Samuel van Hoogstraten (1626-1678), a famous Dutch painter and draughtsman, and a pupil of Rembrandt. Especially the fine text-engravings illustrating the fall of light and the throwing of shadows in painting, in the part headed by the muse Melpomene, bear witness to the influence of Rembrandt's teachings. But the teaching of Van Hoogstraten influenced in its turn contemporary and later painters.
Especially his emphasis on perspective and the knowledge of mathematics for which he adviced among others the works of Marolois (ca. 1572-ca. 1627), a French scholar who published in the Netherlands and was the teacher of Hondius, was of great importance. Dutch 17th century painters were used to work with a so-called "perspective window", or "Camera Obscura" to achieve the correct perspective. The so-called "Perspective-Kabinet" was also popular, of which a very fine specimen made by Van Hoogstraten is still preserved at the National Gallery in London.

Good copy.- (Sl. waterst. in lower outer corner, last text-leaf lacking).
Hollstein IX, S. van Hoogstraeten 31; Cat. Kunsthist. Bibl. Rijksmus. Amst. I, p. 192; Kunst op Schrift 23; Bridson-White E510; Bolten p. 212 ff.; Kemp, The Science of Art, p. 118, et passim; see also: De wereld der geleerdheid rond Vermeer, p. 24, with an illustration of Van Hoogstraten's "Perspective Kabinet"; NUC lists 3 copies.

Related Subjects: Art General  Drawing & Painting  Rembrandt 

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