Escape from Egypt - Swannenfeldt - lithograph

【Picture 1 is the original picture】 [Figures 2~6 are a partial enlarged view of the original] Author: Herman van Swanevelt (1603 ~ 1655) Title: [Escape from Egypt] (REST ON THE FLIGHT TO EGYPT) Credited: Herman van Suanevelt Inventor et fecit/ cum previlegio Regis. Technique: Etching. Year: 1640~1650. Size: Approx. 20.5 x 27 cm (screen). 24.5 x 31 cm (including cardboard). Remarks: with double-layer cardboard mounting (without frame) Serial number: P K-055 Introduction of works: The famous Dutch Baroque artist Herman van Swanevelt (1603~1655) can be said to have witnessed a great era of international artistic exchange. After the Renaissance, Italy became a place of pilgrimage for artists, an influx of artists from all over Europe, and a new name was created: "Italianisants", who loved and studied Italian art, formed partisans Pie, it's all the rage. Swannenfeldt is one of the Italians who has inherited the past. He is from Woerden, the Netherlands. His family members are all art craftsmen, and there is even a well-known ancestor: the great painter Lucas van. Leyden (Lucas van Leyden, 1494~1533), however, Swannenfeldt's artistic teacher remains a mystery. His earliest work that can be studied is the oil painting completed in Paris in 1623, which means that he left home to embark on the road of art before he was twenty years old. In 1629, he came to Rome, and during this period in Rome (returning to Paris in 1641), he developed his own unique style of painting, creating a new type of pastoral style of landscape painting and combining the different light of the day. It is integrated into the picture and becomes the contrast of the atmosphere of the picture. At this time, he also joined a group of Dutch painters in Rome - "Bentvueghels" (Bentvueghels), but he prefers to work alone, and thus won the title of "hermit". Moreover, because of the creation and promotion of Swannenfeldt and his French colleague Claude Lorrain (ca. 1600 ~ 1682), this Italian pastoral landscape painting gradually established its classic status , and also made landscape painting a new category of European painting art. Swannenfeldt's success soon attracted the attention of the Barberini family, an important aristocratic family in Rome at that time. One of the important members of the family was Urbano, who became Pope in 1623. VIII (Urban VIII, 1568 ~ 1644). In the Pope's favor, Swannenfeldt received many commissions from the Vatican and also painted for the Royal House of Busburg in Madrid. After returning to France, he became a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, founded in Paris in 1648, and was also a member of the cardinal-duc de Richelieu (1585-1642). And under the patronage of King Louis XIV of France (Louis XIV, 1638~1715), he continued to create. However, it was his etchings that helped him popularize the idyllic landscapes he had created, and at the same time determined the development of landscape painting until the eighteenth century, especially in France. The quality and quantity of his etchings surpassed that of other Italian artists of the time. This etching of our [Flight from Egypt] should have been created by Swannenfeldt after he returned to Paris. There is a cum previlegio Regis (the king's license) at the bottom right of the picture, which may be a commission from the royal family. In the picture, he incorporates the text in the New Testament that Jesus' parents escaped from King Herod's infanticide and fled to Egypt under the instruction of the messenger of God, into this landscape print. The dense jungle in the foreground extends diagonally from the low landscape of a pond on the left to the towering trees on the upper right. It is the dynamic composition of a typical Baroque painting, setting off the dramatic effect of escape. *If you have any details, please send a message to contact the designer *The main products of this design hall are Western antiques, old jewelry, and old European original prints. Old products will inevitably have traces of historical years, but they are cleverly placed according to personal taste, and they can promote an extraordinary life. Taste and aesthetic concept. However, if you still mind, please consider carefully before placing an order.