Ca 1600: The Holy Family / Signed Michel Coxie / and Zacharias Dolendo

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Ca 1600: The Holy Family / Signed Michel Coxie / and Zacharias Dolendo This is a splendid engraving showing an episode out of the childhood of Christ This state was published by Claes Jansz Visscher between 1639 and 1646.This is an original engraving more then 350 years old ! reference, Hollstein 12 (after Coxie)Hollstein 6 (Dolendo) Info from the same print in the British Museum: The Holy Family. Interior with Virgin Mary and Chist as a child seated at centre, surrounded by two women with several children, two men beyond, St Joseph standing at left; after Michiel CoxcieEngravingSigned below impression: "Michiel Cocxy inuen." and "BDolendo fecit" and "CIVisscher excude."Lettered in lower margin, in two lines: "Quam beata Domus Dauid ex... / ... nativitate B Mariae." Inventor Inventor : Michael Coxie (1499 – 1592) - Flemish School was a Flemish painter who studied under Bernard van Orley, who probably induced him to visit the Italian peninsula. (Coxcie is sometimes spelled Coxie, such as in the Mechelen street devoted to the painter). At Rome in 1532 he painted the chapel of Cardinal Enckenvoirt in the church of Santa Maria dell' Anima; and Giorgio Vasari, who knew him, says with truth that he fairly acquired the manner of an Italian. But Coxcie's principal occupation was designing for engravers; and the fable of Psyche in thirty-two sheets by Agostino Veneziano and the Master of the Die are favorable specimens of his skill.Returning to the Netherlands, Coxcie greatly extended his practice in this branch of art. But his productions were till lately concealed under an interlaced monogram M.C.O.K.X.I.N. In 1539, Coxcie returned to Mechelen, where he matriculated and painted the wings of an altarpiece[1] for the chapel of the guild of St Luke. The centre of this altar-piece, by Jan Mabuse, represents Saint Luke the Evangelist, patron of painters, portraying the Virgin; the side pieces contain the Martyrdom of Saint Vitus and the Vision of St John the Evangelist in Patmos.At van Orley's death in 1541 Coxcie succeeded to the office of court painter to the Regent Maria of Austria, for whom he decorated the castle of Binche. He was subsequently patronized by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, who often coupled his works with those of Titian; by Philip II of Spain, who paid him royally for a copy of Jan van Eyck's Agnus Dei; and by Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva, who once protected him from the insults of Spanish soldiery at Mechelen. At that time Coxcie also designed tapestries for the Brussels manufacturers.Many tapestries were sold to Sigismund II Augustus for his castle on the Wawel. Coxcie he may have designed also the tapestries for Phillip II's Royal Palace of Madrid depicting episodes of the life of Cyrus II, based on writing of Herodotus.There are large and master works of his (1587-1588) in the St. Rumbolds Cathedral of Mechelen, in the St. Michael and Gudula Cathedral of Brussels, and in the museums of Brussels and Antwerp. His style is Raphaelesque grafted on the Flemish, but his imitation of Raphael, whilst it distantly recalls Giulio Romano, is never free from affectation and stiffness. He was known as the Flemish Raphael. He died at Mechelen on the 5 March, 1592, after falling from a flight of stairs. Engraver: Zacharias Dolendo ( died in Leyden in 1604) Pupil of Jacob De Gheyn. He died at a young age because of a disordered life. Because of his young age he probably never gained the status of self employed engraver and worked as a pupil and under the direction of De Gheyn. His technical however is equal to the greatest of his time. Technical: 17th century's impressions on good laid watermarked paper from the period (fouls head with bell's). The engraving measures 22,50 by 29 cm on plate border and is in a full sheet with larger margins. Good detailed impression. Early print of good quality. read more

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