Museum number:
| APM 6.408a |
Subcollection:
| prints and paintings |
Title:
| engraving |
Keyword:
| standing smoker, "HOLLANDAIS" |
Description:
| Prent van een staande roker met in rechthoekig kader een naar rechts gekeerde man met halvelange pijp in de linkerhand, gekleed in een vest over een buis, een werkschort, en hoedje met rand op het hoofd, rechts de afsnede van een zeilboot, langs de onderrand "HOLLANDAIS". Handingekleurd in pasteltinten. |
Date:
| Period | 1780 - 1820 |
Dimensions:
| General | Height | 8.27 in (21 cm) |
| Width | 5.91 in (15 cm) | |
| Other dimensions | lijst: 33 x 47 cm | |
Characteristics
| Material | paper |
| Technique | printed |
| Colour | gray-white |
| Other materials | oak (wood), glass (inorganic material) |
| Finish | inkt, verf, meerkleur |
| Traces of use | geen |
Production
| Continent | Europe |
| Region international | Western Europe |
| Country | France |
| Maker | Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur |
Acquisition
| Year | 1983 |
| Provenance | Parijs, antiquariaat, <1981-1983 |
Comments
| Twee stuks in bruine houten lijst (33 x 47 cm.). Gegevens van de Arents collection, New York. Unidentified, after Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur (French, 1757-1810) Matelot Hollandais. Hand-colored etching in: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur. Costumes Civils actuels de tous les peuples connus, dessinés d'après nature, gravés et coloriés, Accompagnés d'une Notice Historique sur leurs Coutumes, Moeurs, Religions, &c. [Contemporary civilian costumes of all known peoples, drawn from nature, engraved and colored. Accompanied by an historical notice regarding their customs, habits, religions, etc.]. Paris: Pavard, 1788. The image of a Dutch sailor is accompanied by a "historical notice on Holland," in which political, religious, and social systems are discussed. The French author's emphasis, at this critical date, was on Holland's democratic nature. Among the examples given, it is said that the Dutch eat, drink, even smoke together from the same plate, glass, and pipe. Costume series originated, in part, from an impulse of mapping and cataloguing the known world. Understanding how a people looked and dressed, and where and how they lived, provided information about the rest of the world, and also, by contrast, about oneself. |
Exhibition
| Leiden, Pijpenkabinet, overloop, december 1983 - 31 december 1994. |
| Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet, overloop tweede etage, 1995 e.v. |
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