Interieur van een Visserswoning in Marken
1815 - 1889
Medium
steel engraving
Dimensions
111; 131; 177; 78
About this artwork
height 131 mm x width 177 mm
Art Historical Context
This steel engraving by Jan Baptist Tetar van Elven captures the intimate interior of a fisherman’s cottage on the island of Marken, a traditional fishing community north of Amsterdam. Created during the artist’s lifetime (1815–1889), the small print—measuring just 131 by 177 millimetres—offers a glimpse into nineteenth-century Dutch domestic life. Marken was celebrated for its distinctive wooden houses and preserved customs, and such scenes appealed to viewers fascinated by regional traditions amid rapid urban change. Steel engraving, a precise reproductive technique favoured in the 1800s, a...
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 ...