Travee van het schip van de Sint-Janskathedraal

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plaatrand: hoogte 493 mm x breedte 340 mm

Art Historical Context

This etching by Petrus Johannes Arendzen captures a single bay of the nave in Sint-Janskathedraal (St. John’s Cathedral) in ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. Created between 1875 and 1895, the print records the soaring Gothic architecture with careful attention to vaulting, clustered columns, and intricate stonework. Arendzen, a Dutch printmaker known for architectural subjects, produced the image during a period when artists and scholars sought to document and preserve the country’s medieval heritage through precise reproductive techniques. Executed as an etching, the work highlights the me...

About the Artist

Petrus Johannes Arendzen · 1855–1935

Petrus Johannes Arendzen (1846–1932) was a Dutch etcher, draughtsman, and painter who dedicated his career to creating reproductive etchings of Dutch paintings in English collections while living in England from 1873 onward. Born in Amsterdam in 1846, Arendzen married Epiphania, daughter of Johan Stracké, and left his native city to pursue a unique commission from the Dutch Government: to copy the...