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Description: | bound volume (65.5 x 50.5 x 5.5 cm) s. on plate b. r. "R. Bonnart fig. Sculp. et F. Baudoins Sculp."; inscr on plate b. l. "Veue de la Ville, et du port de Calais, du coste de la terre / Dessigni sur le naturel, et peinte pour le Roy tres-chrestien, par F. Vander Meulen. Se distribue a Paris par l'Auteur, en l'Hostel des Manufactures Royales dit des Gobelins, & en la rue St. Jacques. Avec privilege du Roy."; Latin inscr. on plate b.r. "Urbis et portus Caletensis e terra prospecuts. / Ad Verum delineatus, et pro Rege Christianissimo, pictus per F. Vander Meulen. Prostat Parisiis Apud Authorem in Regia Artium officina, Vulgo dicta, des Gobelins, Et in via Jacobea, Cum privilegio Regis. 1685." CRE BONNART, Robert; (French; 1652-1729) AFTER MEULEN, Adam Frans van der; (Dutch; 1632-1690) PUB MEULEN, Adam Frans van der; (Dutch; 1632-1690) CRE BOUDEWYNS, Adriaen Frans; (Flemish; 1644-1711) Part of William Hunter's original bequest, this volume contains 112 engravings after paintings made or published by van der Meulen. A Flemish Baroque artist who specialised in horses and landscapes, he was invited to work for Louis XIV as a painter of views of royal castles, hunting scenes, processions, travels and military campaigns. Travelling with the troops and sketching on the battlefield, van der Meulen's fresh style was influential in the development of the relatively new genre of battlescapes. Following the success of his paintings recording the campaigns in Flanders he had many of his works engraved. Most were included in the remarkable collection of engravings known as the Cabinet du Roi originated with Louis XIV's minister J.B. Colbert. By 1670 these engravings were published in volumes and presented as gifts to visiting dignitaries or offered for sale. Hunter's volume, still in its late 17th century binding, is a now rare surviving example.
From a series depicting the conquests and battles of Louis XIV grouped at the front of the volume, this print depicts his troops marching toward Calais. Van der Meulen passed through Calais with the troops in the mid 1660s in the early years of Louis XIV's campaign to push the boundaries of France further north. Van der Meulen used a small group of engravers to copy his works, including his pupil, French draughtsman Robert Bonnart and fellow countryman Adriaen Frans Boudewyns. | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | TOWN : FRANCE : KING : HARBOUR : VIEW : MILITARY CAMPAIGN : VOLUME : LOUIS XIV : CALAIS : RAIN : HUNTER VOLUME : REPRODUCTIVE PRINT : FIELD : SOLDIER : FLANDERS : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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