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In art history, "Old Master" (or "old master") [1] [2] refers to any painter of skill who worked in Europe before about 1800, or a painting by such an artist. An "old master print" is an original print (for example an engraving, woodcut, or etching) made by an artist in the same period. The term "old master drawing" is used in the same way.
The Three Crosses, drypoint by Rembrandt, 1653, state III of IV. An old master print (also spaced masterprint) is a work of art produced by a printing process within the Western tradition (mostly by Old Masters).
A proof of an etching by Hubert von Herkomer, without text, which would appear in the empty rectangular portion of the page above the artist's signature.. The term "proof" is generally, but not consistently, applied only to prints from the late eighteenth-century onwards, beginning with the English mezzotinters, who began the practice of issuing small editions of proofs for collectors, often ...
The 17th-century drawing is attributed to the Flemish engraver and draftsman Willem Panneels (c. 1600–34). A newly acquired old master drawing at the Washington County Museum of Fine Arts Skip ...
Old Master silverpoints are typically intimate in scale, recalling the technique's roots in manuscript illumination. However, modern artists have also utilized this fine line technique for works on an increasingly large scale.
The Illustrated Bartsch (TIB) is an extensive compendium of European old master prints and commentary, published by the Abaris Books imprint of OPAL Publishing Corporation. It is based on the 21 volume Le Peintre-Graveur , by Adam von Bartsch , published in the early nineteenth century, which listed the prints and gave a concise description ...
The definition of states mostly goes back to Adam von Bartsch, the great cataloguer of old master prints.A great deal of work was done by art historians during the 19th and early 20th centuries, and most non-contemporary printmakers now have all the states of their prints catalogued.
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