STUDIO OF PAUL POTTER
£60.00
Original 1840s 11 inch x 8 3/4 inch steel engraving of THE STUDIO OF PAUL POTTER.
Landscape with in the right foreground Paulus Potter sitting on an upside-down bucket and drawing a woman milking a cow; a child, a peasant, his wife and their baby are observing the artist.
Paulus Potter was a pioneer in the painting of landscapes with animals. Farm scenes and small-scale paintings of animals became popular in Holland from the middle of the 17th century. Potter was a precocious artist; his earliest works date from 1640, when he would have been 15 years old.
Engraved by Alfred Revel
From a painting by Eugène Lepoittevin (1806-1870). Eugène Lepoittevin was a French landscape painter, lithographer and caricaturist.
Published exclusively in the Art Union Journal.
Image size 9 5/8 inch x 7 1/8 inch
The engraving is in good condition with a piece out of the lower right corner. Reverse side blank.
Availability: 1 in stock
