This famous painter and etcher was also called Herman d'Italy or Il Erimita. Born in the Netherlands, he first went to Paris and then to Rome between 1629 and 1641. In the 1630s the Dutch Italianate painter Herman van Swanevelt (ca. 1603-1655) developed in Rome, in collaboration with his colleague and contemporary Claude Lorrain, what in those days was a new type of idyllic ideal landscape whose sunlit 'contrejours' reflected the times of day and which Swanevelt continued to disseminate in the North after he moved to Paris. It was however chiefly his etchings which made this new type of landscape accessible to a large public, and which decisively contributed to the development of the taste for landscape art into the eighteenth century, notably in France. In terms of quality and quantity, Swanevelt was the foremost etcher among the early Italianates. The first of his etchings were made in Rome, probably stimulated by the French etchers Charles Audran, who lived in his house there from 1632 to 1634, and by Claude Lorrain, who made 39 etchings in the 1630s, while most of Swanevelt's - 90 - originated in Paris. The only works he dated are two late series (1653 and 1654).
Swanevelt is a link between the first (Breenbergh) and the third (Both) generations of Italianisants.


DRAWER IN A LANDSCAPE WITH WATERFALL With Herman Van Swanevelt In. fe (et ex) Cum Pr Re (et ex) erased but still visible) 18,50 by 27,50 cm on plate border In a sheet of watermarked woven with large margins A good attractive but somewhat later impression	TRAVELLERS IN A LANDSCAPE B.79 With Herman Van Swanevelt In. fe et ex Cum Pr Re 18 by 28 cm trimmed on plate border Watermarked laid paper (Shield) A very good early impression

sold	REST ON THE FLIGHT TO EGYPT B.44 With Herman Van Swanevelt Inventor et fecit Cum privilegio Regis (the print shown above is sold, see for another available impression below) Click here for available impression of this print 21 by 28 cm on plate border Full plate border, no margins. Good impression.

MONTE PALATINO D.84 With Herman Van Swanevelt fecit et Excudit Cum privilegio Regis 18 by 27,80 cm on plate border In a sheet of laid paper backed on another laid paper sheet A very good early impression with the typical vertical lines from the whipping of the plate still visible	BALAAM AND THE ASS H.5 ( VII / VIII) With H Swanevelt Fecit Rom. Poilly Excudit 25 by 31 cm trimmed on plate border Good laid paper with no visible watermark Rather good impression, with some small restored tears in text line.

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