Salomon de Koninck
(1609 – Amsterdam 1656)
“An old man sleeping in an armchair”
etching: 21,6 x 10,8 cm; circa 1629-1659
With thread margins. Indiscernible, small bunch of grapes (?) watermark.
A very good impression of this extremely scarce, early etching.
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Notes
Koninck (1609-1656) was a member of a family of Dutch artists, including Philips and Jacob Koninck (or de Koninck). He was a pupil of François Venant and Claes Moyaert and married to the daughter of Adriaen van Nielandt, an art dealer who lived close to Rembrandt van Rijn in Leiden during the 1630s. Koninck was a follower of Rembrandt and during much of his career, modelled his own style from Rembrandt’s use of rich contrasts and his choice of subjects, including elderly men. Though significantly influenced by Rembrandt, Koninck was more of a painter, and less of a peintre-graveur like Rembrandt. He created only six different etchings, each of which is extremely scarce and printed in a very small run of impressions. Hollstein 4.
We have found only one other impression of this etching at auction or in a public sale in the past 30 years.
Provenance:
- Private collection, USA
- Private collection, The Netherlands
Literature
- Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols.
- Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. I-XV, XVIII, XIX.