Sadeler the Elder Raphael - Palamonis et Pachomii - Etching on paper (1660)
Estimate: £200 - £300
Palamonis et Pachomii is a beautiful hand-watercolor etching realized by the Flemish artist Raphael Sadeler (Anvers, Antwerpen 1560 - Munich between 1628 and 1632), after a drawing by Maarten de Vos (Anvers, Antwerpen, 1532 - Anvers 1603). Inscriptions on the lower margin in the matrix area, not completely readable: "Raph sadeler sculp. (..) / M.de Vos sigue"
Caption on plate in Latin: "Life PALAMONIS fuit hec iuueniq. PACHOMII, Ducere row, preces fundere, dura pati. O par empyreo dignum: whose sole voluptas, Posse voluptas spernere, posse pati." Original etching from coeval copper plate from the SOLITUDO SIVE VITAE PATRUM EREMICOLARUM For antiquissimum Patrem D. Hieronimum eorundem primarium olim conscripta: iam true primum aeneis laminis idà ioannis et Raphael Sadeler frairù imprensis scampt: et excusa.
The engraving, dating around 1580, represents the Palestinian hermit Palamone reading the Holy Scriptures.
Caption on plate in Latin: "Life PALAMONIS fuit hec iuueniq. PACHOMII, Ducere row, preces fundere, dura pati. O par empyreo dignum: whose sole voluptas, Posse voluptas spernere, posse pati." Original etching from coeval copper plate from the SOLITUDO SIVE VITAE PATRUM EREMICOLARUM For antiquissimum Patrem D. Hieronimum eorundem primarium olim conscripta: iam true primum aeneis laminis idà ioannis et Raphael Sadeler frairù imprensis scampt: et excusa.
The engraving, dating around 1580, represents the Palestinian hermit Palamone reading the Holy Scriptures.