Jan VAN DE VELDE IL GIOVANE. 1593-1641

The Four SeasonsClaes Jansz Visscher, 1617

4 plates with etching engravings of mm. 288x426, 292x427, 290x423, 299x434; second state of four with monogram 1.v. of the autor and the publisher's address; progressive number in the bottom right; lily watercolor. Good condition.

Very rare full season series. The plates, titled Ver, Aestas, Autumnus and Hyems, drawn and engraved by Jan Van de Velde the Younger were published by Nicolas Visscher in 1617. Jan Van de Velde, 1593-1641, works in Haarlem in the early decades of ' 600 and is one of the greatest painters and engravers of the time. He is an extraordinary landscape designer, his art will be influenced by several Dutch painters, including Rembrandt. Hollstein Dutch 32-1 (2); Franken and Van der Kellen 142-145; D. Freedberg, Prints of the Dutch Landscape. London, The British Museum Press, 1980.