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Cornelis van Kittensteyn

Plate 5, The Triumphal Entry of Willem of Nassau, Prince of Orange

Description

Maker

Cornelis van Kittensteyn (Dutch, ca. 1598 - ca. 1652)
After Willem Pietersz. Buytewech (Dutch, 1591 - 1624)
Jan van de Velde II (Dutch, ca. 1593-1641), publisher

Title

Plate 5, The Triumphal Entry of Willem of Nassau, Prince of Orange

Year

1623

Medium

  • Engraving on laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Engraving on laid paper

Materials

ink

Supports

  • paper

Dimensions

Sheet: 40.3 x 38.1 cm (15 7/8 x 15 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Watermark: Coat of arms with three crowns. Heawood 624, Amsterdam 1618. Collectors marks on verso:Baron Hans Albrecht von Derschau, died 1824 (Lugt 2510); Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Lugt 1606); Deaccession stamp of above (Lugh 2482); Thomas Graf, 1878-1951, Berlin (Lugt 1092a)Plate 5 (d): contains engraved signature:Wilhelmus Buytenwegis, Inventor/Cornelius Kittensteyvius, Sculptor/Exudebat Ioannes Veldius Iun

Identification

State

i/iii

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

2006.46D

Type

  • Prints

Projects & Publications

Publications

Pub_ID 178 The Brilliant Line v_01.jpg
  • Books

The Brilliant Line: Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650

Renaissance engravings are objects of exquisite beauty and incomparable intricacy that are composed entirely of lines. Artists began using this intaglio process in Europe as early as 1430. This captivating catalogue focuses on the height of the medium, from 1480 to 1650, when engravers made dramatic and rapid visual changes to engraving technique as they responded to the demands of reproducing artworks in other media. The Brilliant Line follows these visual transformations and offers new insight into the special inventiveness and technical virtuosity of Renaissance and Baroque (Early Modern) engravers. The three essays discuss how engraving’s restrictive materials and the physical process of engraving informed its visual language; the context for the spread of particular engraving styles throughout Europe; and the interests, knowledge, and skills that Renaissance viewers applied when viewing and comparing engravings by style or school.

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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Brilliant Line
Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650
Sep 18, 2009 – Jan 03, 2010

Label copy

Cornelius van Kittensteyn learned to engrave from Jacob Matham, an apprentice to Hendrick Goltzius. But instead of adapting the Haarlem school’s formulas for tone-particularly their swelling lozenges and dots-Kittensteyn engraved with a deliberate delicacy, concentrating on straight lines placed in more traditional patterns, similar to the fine manner of Wierix. Seemingly a conscious alteration to his teacher’s style, Kittensteyn’s technique allowed him to place emphasis on the many textures of the composition-textiles, animal skin, and hair-over heroic form or dramatic lighting effects.

Conceived as a triumphal procession in five sheets intended to be viewed as a frieze, this set is missing its fourth sheet. The theme is related to a painting executed at the city hall of Delft in 1620 and now lost. The composition presents an imagined procession of several generations of the ruling family of The Netherlands, the House of Orange. The patriarch, William of Nassau (the Silent) sits in the final chariot and is preceded by his successors. The historical figures are flanked by the Christian Virtues, the Political Virtues, and the Military Virtues, each numbered and named in Kittensteyn’s elaborate calligraphic script.

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Cornelis van Kittensteyn (Dutch, ca. 1598 - ca. 1652)
After Willem Pietersz. Buytewech (Dutch, 1591 - 1624)
Jan van de Velde II (Dutch, ca. 1593-1641), publisher
Plate 5, The Triumphal Entry of Willem of Nassau, Prince of Orange, 1623
Engraving on laid paper
Sheet: 40.3 x 38.1 cm (15 7/8 x 15 inches)
Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund 2006.46D

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