Antiquair
Medium
steel engraving
Dimensions
126; 82
About this artwork
height 126 mm x width 82 mm
About the Artist
Jan Baptist Tetar van Elven · 1805–1879
Jan Baptiste Tetar van Elven (1805–1879) was a Dutch Romantic painter who specialized in meticulously rendered church interiors, a genre with deep roots in Dutch artistic tradition extending back to the seventeenth-century masters Pieter Saenredam and Emanuel de Witte. Working during the nineteenth century when Romanticism's fascination with Gothic architecture and medieval spirituality coincided ...