Slapende jongen
Jan Baptist Tetar van Elven
1815 - 1889
Medium
steel engraving
Dimensions
149; 61; 108; 85
About this artwork
Schenking van Kunsthandel/Veiling R.W.P. de Vries
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 ...