- Tytuł:
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Odkrycie nieznanej kolekcji paryskich rycin Jeremiasza Falcka oraz ich kopii przechowywanych w Statens Museum for Kunst w Kopenhadze w kontekście stanu wiedzy i perspektyw badawczych
The Discovery of an Unknown Collection of Parisian Engravings by Jeremias Falck and their Copies Housed in the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen in the Context of the Current State of Knowledge and Research Perspectives - Autorzy:
- Moisan-Jablonski, Christine
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/52779748.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2020
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego w Bydgoszczy
- Tematy:
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Jeremiasz Falck
Jean I Leblond
nieznane ryciny
nieznane kopie
grafika alegoryczna
XVII w.
Paryż
Kopenhaga
Statens Museum for Kunst
Den Kongelige Kobberstiksamling
nieopisana kolekcja
Jeremias Falck
unknown engravings
unknown copies
allegorical prints
17th century
Paris
Copenhagen
The Royal Collection of Graphic Art
undescribed collection - Opis:
- Jeremias Falck’s engraving activities which are connected with his several-year stay in Paris (in the late 1630s–1644) has not kindled much interest among scholars since the publication of Julius Caesar Block’s monogram in 1890. My long-standing interest in allegorical subjects, and the many aspects of the phenomenon of the diffusion of Western European printmaking into other fields of art and culture, led me to pursue a study of this unjustly forgotten period of his work. In the course of my preliminary research I found copies of his oeuvre – copperplate engravings, which have not been previously described and which, in the majority of cases, have never been recorded in the literature on the subject. The results of my many years of research is the discovery and the inventorying of 35 series of engravings, that fall under a broad and varied category of copies of Falck’s works from his Parisian period. It was not always possible to find complete series. However, if the likely number of plates that originally constituted these series are added up we obtain the high number of 157 new, unknown copies. A major discovery, which makes it possible to largely fill in the blanks in the state of knowledge about Falck’s Parisian period and its influence on Dutch and German graphic art was the ground-breaking research carried out in the cabinet of prints and drawings of the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen. It transpired that the Danish collection contains many copies of Falck engravings that are housed in other European collections, e.g. in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris (hereafter the BnF). These are mostly allegorical series which the engraver from Gdańsk made for the Parisian publisher Jean I Leblond: The Four Seasons, The Five Senses, The Four Ages of Man, The Four Parts of the Day. The Danish collection also includes works which the authors of Inventaire du fonds français – a multi-volume catalogue of French engravings held at the BnF in Paris – described as “dans la manière de Falck”. They consist of works belonging to separate series: The Virtues, The Seven Liberal Arts and the series, Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving which consists of three plates. In addition, in Copenhagen there are unsigned series of The Four Elements and The Four Continents which Block attributed to Falck. The Statens Museum for Kunst houses a rich collection of German and Dutch copies of Jeremias Falck’s engravings. The most extensive series of engravings, depicting allegorical themes modelled on Falck’s plates, were published in Amsterdam by Salomon Savery (The Five Senses, The Four Periods of the Day), Francoys van Beusekom (The Elements modelled on The Periods of the Day and The Five Senses series) and Rombout van den Hoeye (The Five Senses, The Twelve Months). The Danish collection also includes a series of The Seasons published by Hugo Allard. Another anonymous series of The Seasons – with less skilfully made plates – seems to point to their production in Germanic countries. The Cologne publisher, Gerhard Altzenbach, probably produced not only copies of The Twelve Months, The Five Senses and The Seasons but probably also The Four Elements and The Four Ages of Man series. The Nuremberg publisher, Paulus Fürst, published copies of The Virtues series. Johann Hoffmann, another publisher from Nuremberg used the Falck series for The Elements cycle. Copies of the plates of selected engravings from The Virtues and Prayer and Almsgiving cycles which came from several separate series, should also be associated German printmaking. The series discovered in Copenhagen are presented against the background of other copies of Falck’s cycles, including Italian ones, found in other European museums. The study of this seemingly short, although extremely fruitful, period of Falck’s stay in Paris has proved to be very important in broadening our knowledge of his work. At the same time, new, hitherto completely unknown relationships existing between his works and the prints of other parts of Europe were discovered. These new findings made it possible to establish a different perspective on the study of his oeuvre, going beyond the somewhat schematic – by definition – findings in traditional catalogues of prints. The prints made in Paris not only reached other printmaking centres but also influenced the creation of new works. Studies on the early period of Falck’s oeuvre makes us fully aware of just what a melting pot 17th-century European printmaking was – one in which, despite the specificity of the different centres, various models and concepts of printmaking were combined. The scale of the repetition of the engravings and the extent to which plates engraved by Falck were used to create new compositions seem quite exceptional. Publishers from Amsterdam, Cologne, Nuremberg, Frankfurt-am-Main, Rome and Venice all alluded to Falck’s oeuvre. The key to the success of his work probably lies in the attractiveness of the painted and drawn originals on which the engravings are based – in this instance, the wreath of fame should be awarded to artists such as Charles le Brun, who created the monochrome models for one series of The Seasons, and Justus van Egmont, the alleged author of the originals for The Elements and The Five Senses series. The works carried out on the Parisian period of Jeremias Falck’s activity will, in the future, enable the writer of these words to compile not only a catalogue of his works and copies of them, but above all to show – in the context of the diffusion of the French Le Grand Siècle – the mechanisms underlying the metamorphoses of the originals, depending on the cultural specificity, preferences and needs of other European centres of printmaking.
- Źródło:
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Tabularium Historiae; 2020, 8; 11-45
2543-8433 - Pojawia się w:
- Tabularium Historiae
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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