Dubbelportret van Jean Baptiste van Eijcken en Julie Anne Marie Noël van Eijcken
1841 - 1842
Medium
wood engraving
Dimensions
42; 57
About this artwork
Aankoop uit het F.G. Waller-Fonds
Art Historical Context
Nestled among our collection of intimate 19th-century prints is *Dubbelportret van Jean Bapt van Eijcken en Anne Marie Noël van Ecken*, a delicate wood engraving created anonymously between 1841 and 1842. Measuring just 42 mm high by 57 mm wide, thisutive double portrait captures a husband and wife in a format that speaks to the era's fascination with personal mementos. Such small-scale works were often treasured as keepsakes, exchanged among family or included in albums, reflecting the growing middle-class emphasis on family identity in early industrial Europe. Wood engraving, the medium her...
About the Artist
anonymous
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...