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Description: | bound volume (65.5 x 50.5 x 5.5 cm) s. on plate b.r. "HB. f."; inscr. on plate b.l. "V Meulen, jn, et ex cum privil Regis" AFTER MEULEN, Adam Frans van der; (Dutch; 1632-1690) PUB MEULEN, Adam Frans van der; (Dutch; 1632-1690) CRE HUCHTENBURGH, Jan van; (Dutch:1647-1733) 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. This is one of a series of eight small oval prints depicting events from the military campaigns of Louis XIV. Here, seated on a horse, he receives the keys to a city in an image endorsing his right to the many towns he took from the Spanish Netherlands. It was engraved by Jan van Huchtenburg a fellow Flemish artist whom van der Meulen commissioned to engrave many of his designs. | 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: | FIGURES : CAVALRY : LANDSCAPE : VOLUME : HORSES : CHATEAU : 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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