Antique Print-BRAVO-SOLDIER-KNIFE-PL. 23-van Troyen-Giorgione-Teniers-1673

Jan van Troyen

Publication Date: 1673

About this Item

'23'Original antique print showing the so-called Bravo, after Titian or Giorgione, in reverse: half-length figure of a soldier holding a knife behind his back and grasping the shoulder of a young man wearing a wreath.Made by Jan van Troyen after Giorgione.Etching / engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.Sheet size: 25 x 31.5 cm (9.84 x 12.4 inch). Image size: 17 x 22 cm. (6.69 x 8.66 inch).BRAVO-SOLDIER-KNIFE-PL. 23PCOX-E2-32BACKGROUND INFORMATIONFrom: 'Theatrum Pictorium', (transl.: Theatre of Painting), is a collection of prints published as a boook in the 1660s by David Teniers the Younger for his employer, the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria. It was a depiction of 243 Italian paintings in the Archduke's collection of over 1300 paintings, with engravings of the paintings taken from small models that Teniers had personally prepared. A second edition with page numbers was published in 1673. During the years 1646-1656 Leopold Wilhelm was governor of the Netherlands and formed one of the greatest art collections of his age. Teniers effectively became its curator after the death of his predecessor Jan van den Hoecke in 1651. Leopold Wilhelm's collection came to hold works by Hans Holbein the Elder, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jan van Eyck, Raphael, Giorgione, Paolo Veronese and more than 15 works by Titian. Teniers employed a team of 12 engravers for reproducing the 243 paintings in the Theatrum. He produced small copies in oil of each of the chosen paintings, issuing these as models to his engravers and 120 of which were auctioned by the estate of John Spencer-Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough in 1886. Teniers' painted copies measuring approximately 17 x 25 cm are now spread among various collections. The Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery holds 14 of these works, the largest group in any public collection. Of the 12 engravers, the five who contributed most were Jan van Troyen with 56, Lucas Vorsterman the Younger with 52, Pieter van Lisebetten 40, Theodoor van Kessel 27, and Coryn or Quirin Boel 25. Johannes Popels contributed five engravings. David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II (bapt. 15 December 1610 25 April 1690) was a Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman, miniaturist painter, staffage painter, copyist and art curator.David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II (bapt. 15 December 1610 25 April 1690) was a Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman, miniaturist painter, staffage painter, copyist and art curator. Giorgione (1477 17 September 1510) was an Italian painter of the Venetian school. Condition: very good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully. Seller Inventory # PCO-20320

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Title: Antique Print-BRAVO-SOLDIER-KNIFE-PL. 23-van...

Publication Date: 1673

Illustrator: Giorgione