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Schelte Adams Bolswert, designer

The Fathers of the Church and St. Clare, ca. 1627

Description

Maker

  • Nicolaes Lauwers, 1600-1652, Flemish, publisher
  • After Peter Paul Rubens, 1577-1640, Flemish, associated artist/maker

Title

The Fathers of the Church and St. Clare

Year

ca. 1627

Medium

Engraving, trimmed within platemark

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • engraving

Supports

  • Medium weight cream laid paper mounted on medium weight cream wove paper

Dimensions

Plate: 51.4 x 48.1 cm (20 1/4 x 18 15/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Verso:in pencil, LC:25 30 5 Verso of mount:in pencil, LL:10-17-69 A-1/OLIVO; in UL:15ººRecto:in pencil, LR:19In Plate--In LL:Pet. Paul. Rubens pinxit et S. à Bolswert sculpsit.; in LR:Nicolaus Lauvers excudit Antuerpiae.; 4-line Latin inscription, LC:DOCTORVM aethereo... (see print for full inscription); in UC:HIC EST PANIS QVI DE CAELO DESCENDIT Ioan.6.

Identification

State

i/ii

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Anthony Olivo

Object Number

69.150

Projects & Publications

Publications

The Brilliant Line

Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650
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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Brilliant Line

September 18, 2009 - January 3, 2010

Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert was among the second generation of engravers working for the painter Peter Paul Rubens in Antwerp. Bolswert built upon Lucas Vorsterman’s engraving strategies. He increased the number of crossed lines that made up dark tonal areas while also applying greater discipline and regularity to the length and width of lines, creating ever more dramatic coloristic effects. Notice how no surface is left untouched. Each face is characterized not by the net of lozenges and dots common to Goltzius and Carracci, but by closely spaced parallel lines punctuated with flicks or dots.

Rubens designed this subject for a suite of tapestries on the Triumph of the Eucharist, commissioned by the Infanta Isabella, Governess of the Spanish Netherlands, for the intended location of the Convent of Poor Clares at Descalzas Reales, Madrid. Depicted with the patroness St. Clare are the church fathers who traditionally announced or defended the Eucharist.

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