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Visscher, Claes Jansz. II

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Scholars have long recognized the formal significance of Claes Jansz. Visschers 1612 copies of the Small Landscape prints for the development of seventeenth-century Dutch landscapes. The prints, which were originally published in Antwerp in the mid-sixteenth century, represent the rural terrain of Brabant with a direct naturalism and topographic specificity that would later become a hallmark of Dutch Golden Age landscape prints and paintings. This article focuses on the content of the series and attempts to understand the Dutch market and appreciation for views of Brabant in the early seventeenth century. Published in the early years of the Twelve Years Truce, likely with the vast émigré population of Southern Netherlanders in mind, the prints visually restore Brabant to its pre-Revolt past of peace and prosperity at the same time as they stimulate hope for a reunification of this lost southern province into a new United Netherlands.

prints [visual works] --- Vlaamse school --- landschap, Nederlanden --- typografie --- twaalfjarig bestand --- Nederlanden --- Visscher, Claes Jansz. II --- anno 1600-1699