ENGRAVERS AND ETCHERS
Reading edition
MASTER OF THE AMSTERDAM CABINET. TWO LOVERS
Size of the original engraving, 6½ × 4⅛ inches In the Ducal Collection, Coburg
ENGRAVERS
AND
ETCHERS
SIX LECTURES DELIVERED ON THE SCAMMON FOUNDATION AT THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, MARCH 1916
BY
FITZROY CARRINGTON, M. A.
CURATOR OF PRINTS AT THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON; LECTURER ON THE HISTORY AND PRINCIPLES OF ENGRAVING AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY; EDITOR OF “THE PRINT-COLLECTOR’S QUARTERLY”
WITH 133 ILLUSTRATIONS
THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO 1917
COPYRIGHT 1917
THOMSEN-BRYAN-ELLIS COMPANY
DESIGNED AND PUBLISHED BY
THOMSEN-BRYAN-ELLIS COMPANY
WASHINGTON BALTIMORE
NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA
TO THOSE WHO HELPED ME MAKE THIS BOOK IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION
NOTE
The lectures presented in this volume comprise the twelfth series delivered at the Art Institute of Chicago on the Scammon Foundation. The Scammon Lectureship is established on an ample basis by bequest of Mrs. Maria Sheldon Scammon, who died in 1901. The will prescribes that these lectures shall be upon the history, theory, and practice of the Fine Arts (meaning thereby the graphic and plastic arts), by persons of distinction or authority on the subject on which they lecture, such lectures to be primarily for the benefit of the students of the Art Institute, and secondarily for members and other persons. The lectures are known as “The Scammon Lectures.”
CONTENTS
PAGE
LECTURE I
German Engraving: From the Beginnings to Martin Schongauer 13
LECTURE II
Italian Engraving: The Florentines 51
LECTURE III
German Engraving: The Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet and Albrecht Dürer 95
LECTURE IV
Italian Engraving: Mantegna to Marcantonio Raimondi 139
LECTURE V
Some Masters of Portraiture 181
LECTURE VI
Landscape Etching 227
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet. Two Lovers Frontispiece
Master of the Playing Cards. St. George 15
Man of Sorrows 16
Master of the Year 1446. Christ Nailed to the Cross 19
Master of St. John the Baptist. St. John the Baptist 20
Master E. S. of 1466. Madonna and Child with Saints Marguerite and Catherine 23
Ecstasy of St. Mary Magdalen 24
Design for a Paten 27
St. John on the Island of Patmos 28
Martin Schongauer. Virgin with a Parrot 31
Temptation of St. Anthony 32
Death of the Virgin 33
Pilate Washing His Hands 34
St. John on the Island of Patmos 37
Christ Appearing to the Magdalen 38
Virgin Seated in a Courtyard 39
Angel of the Annunciation 40
The Miller 43
Censer 44
Master L Cz. Christ Tempted 47
Christ Entering Jerusalem 48
Anonymous Florentine, XV Century. Profile Portrait of a Lady 53
Wild Animals Hunting and Fighting 54
Triumphal Procession of Bacchus and Ariadne 57
Jupiter 58
Mercury 63
Lady with a Unicorn 64
The Christian’s Ascent to the Glory of Paradise. From “Il Monte Sancto di Dio,” Florence, 1477 67
Dante and Virgil with the Vision of Beatrice. From the “Divina Commedia,” Florence, 1481 68
Assumption of the Virgin (After Botticelli) 71
Triumph of Love. From the Triumphs of Petrarch 72
Triumph of Chastity. From the Triumphs of Petrarch 75
Libyan Sibyl 76
Anonymous North Italian, XV Century. The Gentleman. From the Tarocchi Prints (E Series) 79
Clio. From the Tarocchi Prints (S Series) 80
The Sun. From the Tarocchi Prints (E Series) 83
Angel of the Eighth Sphere. From the Tarocchi Prints (E Series) 84
Cristofano Robetta. Adoration of the Magi 87
Antonio Pollaiuolo. Battle of Naked Men 88
Master of the Amsterdam Cabinet. Ecstasy of St. Mary Magdalen 97
Crucifixion 98
Stag Hunt 101
St. George 102
Albrecht Dürer. Virgin and Child with the Monkey 107
Four Naked Women 108
Hercules 111
Anonymous North Italian, XV Century. Death of Orpheus 112
Albrecht Dürer. Death of Orpheus 113
Battle of the Sea-Gods (After Mantegna) 114
Adam and Eve 117
Apollo and Diana 118
St. Jerome by the Willow Tree (First State) 121
Holy Family 122
Knight, Death and the Devil 125
Melancholia 126
St. Jerome in His Cell 129
Virgin Seated Beside a Wall 130
Christ in the Garden 133
Erasmus of Rotterdam 134
Andrea Mantegna. Virgin and Child 141
Battle of the Sea-Gods 142
The Risen Christ Between Saints Andrew and Longinus 147
School of Andrea Mantegna. Adoration of the Magi 148
Zoan Andrea (?). Four Women Dancing 151
Giovanni Antonio da Brescia. Holy Family with Saints Elizabeth and John 152
School of Leonardo da Vinci. Profile Bust of a Young Woman 155
Nicoletto Rosex da Modena. Orpheus 156
Jacopo de’ Barbari. Apollo and Diana 159
St. Catherine 160
Giulio Campagnola. Christ and the Woman of Samaria 163
Ganymede (First State) 164
St. John the Baptist 167
Giulio and Domenico Campagnola. Shepherds in a Landscape 168
Marcantonio Raimondi. St. George and the Dragon 171
Bathers 172
St. Cecelia 173
Death of Lucretia 174
Philotheo Achillini (“The Guitar Player”) 177
Pietro Aretino 178
Master . Head of a Young Woman 183
Albrecht Dürer. Albert of Brandenburg 184
Philip Melanchthon 187
Anthony Van Dyck. Portrait of Himself (First State) 188
Frans Snyders (First State) 191
Lucas Vorsterman (First State) 192
Rembrandt. Jan Cornelis Sylvius 195
Rembrandt Leaning on a Stone Sill 196
Clement de Jonghe (First State) 197
Jan Lutma (First State) 198
Claude Mellan. Virginia da Vezzo 201
Fabri de Peiresc 202
Jean Morin. Cardinal Guido Bentivoglio 205
Robert Nanteuil. Pompone de Bellièvre 206
Basile Fouquet 211
Jean Loret 212
J. A. McN. Whistler. Annie Haden 215
Riault, the Engraver 216
Anders Zorn. Ernest Renan 219
The Toast 220
Madame Simon 221
Miss Emma Rassmussen 222
Albrecht Dürer. The Cannon 229
Augustin Hirschvogel. Landscape 230
Rembrandt. The Windmill 233
Three Trees 234
Six’s Bridge 237
Landscape with a Ruined Tower and Clear Foreground 238
Landscape with a Haybarn and a Flock of Sheep 239
Three Cottages 240
Goldweigher’s Field 243
Jacob Ruysdael. Wheat Field 244
Claude Lorrain. Le Bouvier 249
Charles Jacque. Troupeau de Porcs 250
Storm—Landscape with a White Horse 253
Charles-François Daubigny. Deer in a Wood 254
Deer Coming Down to Drink 257
Moonlight on the Banks of the Oise 258
Camille Corot. Souvenir of Italy 261
Jean-François Millet. The Gleaners 262
Seymour Haden. Cardigan Bridge 265
By-Road in Tipperary 266
Sunset in Ireland 267
Sawley Abbey 268
J. A. McN. Whistler. Zaandam (First State) 271
Rembrandt. View of Amsterdam from the East 272