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Bruyn, Nicolaes de (Antwerp 1571 – Rotterdam 1656). Saint Hubert. The south Netherlandish princely “Wild Hunter”, after Döbel father of the par force hunting, with bugle and 6-head pack kneeling without headgear before the stag with his cross in a rich wooden landscape in the manner of the 3^rd Gillis van Coninxloo (Antwerp? 1544 – Amstgerdam 1607). On the pool behind the stag two swans as the prophesying birds of mythology, at the trunk above of the horse a hiss snake as temptress, and nearest to the stag a hubertus hound as the one and only looking at its master. Engraving. (1614.) Sheet size 69.9 x 45.8 cm.

Neither  attained  by  Schwerdt

nor by so many places more

and  not  even  known  to  the  Hubertus  researcher  Dr.  Schlieker

when he arranged his exposition in, i. a., Saint Hubert. Here now in the former copy of

Count  Giovanni  Maria  Mazzuchelli

(Brescia 1707 – 1765, see Jöcher VIII, 1127 ff. with 21 titles of his literary work) fivefold (!) stamped with “Con. Gio. Mazzuchelli” under the count’s coronet on the back.

Early impression  before  the addresses (“… are the better because his fine graving work got worn out soon”, Wurzbach) by Gerard Valck (1626 – after 1694) + Peter I Schenk (1661-1715). – Here with Jan Meyssens’ (Antwerp 1612 – Brussels 1670) publisher’s dedication to the Antwerp-born Fraderi de Marselaer along with his coat-of-arms (“MAZSELARE”) below right inside the picture itself, on which in connection with the arms the date of 1656 (1636?) placed on the same level and traced with pen and ink should be related. For per 16^th Jan. 1632 at the latest the plate (Wurzbach 42: 1614) is provable in an inventory of the Rotterdam orphan-office (Bredius, Künstler-Inventare, V, p. 1600, no. 9: Van Sincte Huybrecht een plaet).

On top trimmed to picturemark, otherwise with quite fine margins around the picture. So fully corresponding with the size given by Wurzbach (52) with 69 x 46 cm. Because of several partly only small tears or thin places professionally restored (doubled) as only relatively and without impairment of the quite fascinating scenery noticiably inside the picture itself.

Bruyn’s  scenery  makes  the  wonder  of  the  event  much  truer  than  Dürer

(c. 1501) who shows a vain knight with straighten back and a cap on his head (!) next to a proud castle amidst an Italien landscape and separated from the stag by his horse. And without snake and – Hubertus hound. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,036  /  price on request

Une  St.  Hubert

Aubry, Charles (France 1^st h. of the 19^th cent.). Chasses Anciennes d’après les Manuscrits des XIV & XV^e Siècles. Set of

12  lithographs

(35-41.5 x 27-29 cm). Paris, Ch. Motte, 1837. Large folio. Loosely in orig. laid watermarked wrapper with illustrated lith. frontcover in colour. Uncut.

Schwerdt I, 47; Souhart 28. – On large strong paper with publishers’ dry-stamp. – Some small tears in the wide white margins restored acid-free. Mostly only within the latters quite minimal brown spots and quite outside a weak waterstreak. The wrapper time-marked as usual but without impairment of its illustration which is dominated by silence as well as rich happening.

Designed in the so-called troubadour style with a main picture as total scenery and a number of instructive smaller details, explained by text strewn in, the thus

instructive  as  in  addition  rare  set

comprises Chasse au sanglier – Chasse au cerf – Chasse de l’antilope au léopard – La chasse du loup – Chasse au faucon – Chasse au lievre à force – Des chiens courans – Chasse de gazelles – Sous Charlemagne (i. a. with a splendid hunting pageant with falconers, the large pack of hounds, bears, lions and cats, partly tamed) – Chasse de l’autruche et de l’éléphant – Chasse au renard . The opening sheet is, however,

Une  St.  Hubert .

See the complete description.
Offer no. 12,101 / EUR  620. / Export price EUR  589. (c. US$ 951.) + shipping

Franconian  Saint  Hubert  in  Rome

Reinhart, Johann Christian (Hof 1761 – Rome 1847). The Landscape with Saint Hubert. In stage-like rocky-woody foreground on the left the stag standing on an elevation, on the opposite side symbolically in the sun the young nobleman with the hunting-knife at his side fallen down onto his knees, the right pressed to the chest and greeting with the raised left. Behind him pack of three and the groom with rifle leading the horse. Downhill the vista goes through an opening in the scenery towards the deeply staggered hilly Roman neighborhood cast in bright light. Etching. Inscribed on stone lower right in the subject “R (ligated JR?) / 1811.” + left below of the subject J. C. Reinhart inv. et fec. Romæ 1810 (sic!). 20.7 x 26.9 cm.

Andresen-Feuchtmayer 123, II (of III); Nagler, Monogramists, IV, 3507 (as “R”), 1; the same, Künstler-Lex., 50. – Plate 1 of the 6-sheet set of landscapes dated in the lower margin with 1805, 1810 + 1815, “one of which with the legend of Saint Hubert” (Nagler 50-55; Weigel, Art Stock Cat., IV [1837], 5327 [impressions on toned paper]). – One of the few plates in the œuvre with additional monogram:

“ Most plates bear the name of the artist, only few the letter R  and  C.R. With R (5) are inscribed: 1) The Landscape with Saint Hubert, 1811. … ”

(Nagler). – Not among the 172 illustrations of the – compared with the first edition of 1927 – richly enlarged second one of 1949 of Huyghebaert’s Sint Hubertus Patroon van de Jagers in Woord en Beeld.

THE  RICH  SUJET  – the saint, however, in Dürer-German manner with the hat with plume kept on – in very fine impression with margins of 0.3 (below) up to 0.8 cm all around on toned vélin with small collector’s mark at the back (not in Lugt). – Browning at the back including two feeble waterstreaks on the edge, the former almost only perceptible somewhat on the front lower right in the white margin, of the waterstreaks only the one on the left and only barely noticeable. – See the complete description.
Offer no. 15,176 / EUR  790. / Export price EUR  751. (c. US$ 1212.) + shipping

Saint Hubert, Hound of, (Chien de Saint Hubert). Half length portrait. Toned wood engraving by Jules Huyot (Toulouse 1841 – after 1882) after Jules Gélibert (Bagnères-de Bigorre 1834 – 1916). C. 1870. 17 x 15 cm.

Thieme-Becker XIII, 365: (Gélibert) paints almost exclusively animal and hunting pictures.
Offer no. 14,463 / EUR  66. (c. US$ 107.) + shipping

(Hubertus Spa [salt springs containing iodine and bromide], The.) Spiegel’s Hotel at the entrance of the Bode valley below Roßtrappe near Thale in the Harz Mountains. Garden view in front of the fine mountain scenery with numerous, partly still promenading guests, some of which studying the list of beverages. While the ladies drink their coffee the gentlemen have wine throughout. On the left hunter with dog. Coloured lithograph. C. 1850. 27.9 x 32.1 cm.

With the address of the Ducal Court, Lithography, and Printing Office at Ballenstedt. – A very rare leaf, worthy of acquisition in spite of general time marks as the imperfections (creasing, light foxing, the right margin even quite strong, and with water stain running into the picture) appear in the picture itself only minimally. Otherwise broad margined and of fresh spring-like colours.
Offer no. 12,579 / EUR  404. / Export price EUR  384. (c. US$ 620.) + shipping

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