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Jan Johnson
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Jan Johnson has been a private dealer since 1979, having been employed in the London print trade for six years prior to that. In 1982 she transferred her business to Canada, her place of origin. She carries fine European prints from about 1490 to 1940, with an eye for the unusual as well as the great names in printmaking. In addition she deals in Canadian prints of the period 1910-1945.
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ROMEYN DE HOOGHE
illa Angiana, vulgo het Perc van Anguien (The Gardens of Chateau d'Enghien), V c.1685
complete set of 17 plates plus title-page, as originally stitched, and with early, blue paper wrappers, probably 18th C. Hollstein 275-284; Landwehr (1973) p.315, 1.2 ff.
etchings, second edition published by Petrus Schenk (1645-c.1715),
the first being published by N. Visscher
watermark: Small foolscap
$4,800.
The Ducs d'Arenberg created what would become the most important garden in Belgium in the 17th and 18th Centuries. From 1630-65, Philippe-François d'Arenberg and his uncle Antoine, a capuchin monk and architect, designed the baroque park that stunned all contemporaries, and was a forerunner of the Versailles style. Works went on for 50 years. It was exceptionally large for the period (50 hectares) and was furthermore surrounded by hunting reserves and wilderness. It was seriously damaged during the French Revolution, but restoration was begun in 1985. Some of the trees are the ROMEYN oldest in the country, and include exotic ones like sequoia, ginkgo and plantanes.
GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO
Magicians burning a Snake at an Altar, 1740's
from Scherzi di Fantasia
etching, Rizzi 5, first state of two, before the number
$10,000.
OTTO GREINER
Dante and Virgil visiting Hell (Inferno, canto 22), 1895
etching, Vogel 65, second state of six, unfinished proof
signed and dated 1985
provenance: Max Klinger (Greiner's teacher), inscribed "Eigenthümer M. Klinger" Together with final state, signed and dated 1896
The pair $7,500.
JAMES TISSOT
Octobre, 1878
etching and drypoint, Wentworth 33
only published state, edition c. 100
with the red stamp indicating early impressions
an exceptionally rich impression.
The splendid painting of the same subject is in the Montreal
Museum of Fine Arts.
$30,000.
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