FALCK, Jeremias - MATHAM, Jacon - SUYDERHOEF, Jonas - VAN PERSIJN, Renier - VAN DALEN I, Cornelis - HAELWEGH, Albert. The Twelve Months of the Year.
Amsterdam, J. Sandrart, 1645 ca.
Complete set of twelve engravings with etchings on laid paper, each S. approximately 350 x 255 mm. Some plate trimmed on the platemark. Below the image, in each plate, the title, two columns with four Latin verses; at the bottom left ‘’Ioachimus Sandrart Pinxit.‘; at the right the engraver's name followed by ‘Sculpsit’. In the plate ‘Ianuarius’, at the bottom the inscription: ‘Ioachimus Sandrart Pinxit et excudit Amstel. - Ier. Falck Sculpsit.’ Occasional browning, some restoration on 3 plates.
Very rare complete series of the twelve months by the most renowned Dutch artists of the time: Falck, Suyderhoef, van Dalen the Younger, Haelwegh, Persijn and Matham. The engravings are based on the series created by Joachim von Sandrart, commissioned by the Elector Maximilian I of Bavaria for the old palace of Schleissheim and painted in Amsterdam in 1641-43. All plates bear the Latin verses of Caspar Barlaeus below the image. The texts were published in Sandrart's "Lebenslauf und Kunstwerke".
The plates are engraved by: Jeremias Falck, 1610-1677, Ianuarius; Martius; Jacon Matham, 1571-1631, Februarius; Jonas Suyderhoef, 1613-1686, Iunius; Augustus; Aprilis; Maius; Renier van Persijn, 1516-1668, Iulius; October; November; Cornelis van Dalen I, circa 1602-1665, September; Albert Haelwegh, 1620-1673, December.
Joachim von Sandrart The Elder, 1606 - 1688, was a German Baroque art historian and painter, active in Amsterdam during the Dutch Golden Age. He is also known for his collection of biographies of Dutch and German artists, the "Teutsche Academie", published between 1675 and 1680.
See BM, Museum, number 1928,0618.16; Christian Klemm, 'Joachim von Sandrart. Kunstwerke und Lebenslauf', Berlin 1986, pp. 122 and 103.