Antique print Morning and Aurora by Jan Saenredam after Goltzius.

Jan Saenredam (1565-1607), after Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617)

Antique print, engraving I Morning and Aurora, published ca. 1595, 1 p.

Name: Antique print, engraving I Morning and Aurora, published ca. 1595, 1 p.
SKU: K80035
Price: 400.00 EUR
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The four parts of the day. Scene 1.

In a domestic interior a scholar reads from a book accompanied by a youth and two children receive instruction from a tutor, probably their mother. Aurora flying in the sky, visible through the windows in the background.

‘The morning ritual taking place in the foreground differs little from what many families do nowadays. Before the two children leave the house, the girl is given a piece of bread and butter to make sure she does not go out with an empty stomach. Less obvious, from today’s point of view, is the gratitude for the piece of bread the girl expresses by folding her hands in prayer. She and her brother are just about to go to school, as we can see from the slate hanging from her arm and the boy’s school bag. Behind them the father and an older son are immersed in books. The mother is about to pick up her needlework again. This family scene represents Morning in a set of the four times of the day.

Hendrick Goltzius gave the subject a very mundane look, and the only remnant of the more allegorical pictorial language previously found in such sets can be seen through the window. The personification of Aurora, the goddess of dawn, adorns the heavens.[…]’ (Maud van Suylen, Children of the Golden Age, 2019, Fondation Custodia, Frits Lugt Collection, Paris, nr. 41).

Monogrammed below, with the address of the publisher: HG jnve / I. Saenreda[m] sculp. / G. Valck Excudit (at bottom).

Numbered on the bottom left: 1.

Two lines of Latin text by Cornelis Schonaeus below: Plena laboriferi curis par prima diei est, / Et nobis oritur cum sollicitudine Phoebus.

[NL] In een vertrek zit een moeder met een schaar in haar hand op een stoel. Een naaimand staat naast haar op de grond. Ze geeft een van de twee kinderen die aan haar schoot staan een boterham. Het meisje houdt de handen gevouwen in gebed. Het tweede kind heeft een boterham in de hand. Bij beiden hangt de schoollei aan de arm. Een hondje zit in vragende houding op de grond. Achter hen staat de vader met de oudste zoon aan een tafel, waarop verschillende boeken en een inktpot. Door het venster is de opkomende zon en Aurora, de zuster van de zonnegod, te zien. Gemaakt door Jan Saenredam naar Goltzius.

SKU: K80035

Engraving on laid paper, with tiny margin; total: 216 x 151 mm; state III/4; some very light staining on the top right corner, some dirt due to handling, otherwise in great condition. Mounted on cardboard passepartout. Hollstein 97, New Hollstein 684.

€ 484,00 (€ 400,00 ex. btw)

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