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Senequier-Crozet (Anciennement Sadde Grenoble)

14 - Hieronymus Cock (c. 1518–1570)
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Estimate €400 - €500
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Hieronymus Cock (c. 1518–1570) Landscape with Roman Ruins and Saint Jerome. 1552. Etching after Maarten van Heemskerck. 350 x 227 mm. New Hollstein (Van Heemskerck) 588. A fine print on thin laid paper, trimmed to a square edge. A vertical drying crease down the centre. An 80 mm oblique tear at the left-hand edge within the pillar. A small loss in the lower right-hand corner, filled in on the reverse, retouched with pen and ink, and a small tear in the upper right-hand corner. Retouching with white gouache within the subject, heavily oxidised. A few other brownish stains. Surface scraping (or scraping away of the surface) on the frontispiece of the saint’s book. Reproduced in J. van der Stock, ed., Hieronymus Cock; Engraving in the Renaissance (exhibition at the Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels, and at the Custodia Foundation, Frits Lugt Collection), Paris, Brussels, Fonds Mercator ed., 2013, pp. 158–59, no. 34. ‘In this etching, Cock broadly reproduces a painting by Maarten van Heemskerck from 1547 [Vaduz, Fürstlich Liechtensteinische Gemäldegalerie]. He clearly attached great importance, both from an artistic and a commercial perspective, to the dissemination of images of ancient Rome. He would also have found it pleasing that his patron saint should feature in the landscape. Both the painting and the engraving depict a landscape of imaginary ruins, featuring ancient remains arranged somewhat haphazardly. On the left are the Egyptian caryatid from Tivoli, the Hercules and Antaeus from the Belvedere, and the remains of the Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum. On the right, at the foot of the stairs, we see the river god Tiber on the Capitoline Hill, associated with the motif of Romulus and Remus and the she-wolf. ’ (I. M. Veldman, in J. van der Stock, ed., Hieronymus Cock; Engraving in the Renaissance, op. cit., p. 158). Expert: Hélène BONAFOUS-MURAT.
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