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Description: | bound volume (65.5 x 50.5 x 5.5 cm) s. on plate b. r. "Francais: Ertinger: Sculp: ff. i685"; French inscr. on plate b. l. "Veue de Leuve, place tres forte dans le Brabant, situee au milieu d'un marais, attaquee et forcee de nuit par les Francois, en l'annee 1678 / Dessigne sur les lieux, pour le Roy tres chrestien, par F. Vander Meulen. / Se distribue a Paris par l'Auteur, en l'Hostel des Manufactures Royales des Gobelins / Et en la rue St Jacques, Avec privilege du Roy."; Latin inscr. on plate b.r. "Prospectus Leviae; urbis in Brabante munitissimae, palude in media sitae a Gallis noctu oppugnatae ac vi captae. anno 1678. / Ad Verum delineatus pro Rege Christianissimo per F. Vander Meulen. Prostat Parisiis Apud Authorem in Regia Artium officina Vulgo dicta des Gobelins, Et in via Jacobea. Cum privilegio Regis. 1686." CRE ERTINGER, Franz dit Francois; (French; 1640-1710) AFTER MEULEN, Adam Frans van der; (Dutch; 1632-1690) PUB MEULEN, Adam Frans van der; (Dutch; 1632-1690) 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 horsemen before the town of Leuven in the Flanders region. The inscriptions states that the French attacked the town by night in 1678 during the years of the Dutch War in which France claimed areas of the Netherlands. Van der Meulen used a small group of engravers to copy his works, including Franz Ertinger, an engraver active in Flanders and France. | 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 : VIEW : MILITARY CAMPAIGN : CAVALRY : FORT : VOLUME : LEUVEN : LOURAIN : LOUIS XIV : HUNTER VOLUME : REPRODUCTIVE PRINT : | 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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