Getting started with the collection:
Cosses de pois Ornament
in: Livre de toutes sortes de feuilles pour servir a l’art d’orfebvrie, Pierre Boucquet (1593-after 1647), after Balthazar Moncornet (c. 1600-1668) engraving, 1634
The Rijksmuseum recently acquired 150 prints collected by M.H. and L.B. (Wiet) Gans, renowned connoisseurs of antique silverware. Because of their rarity and virtuoso execution, these works represent a key addition to the collection of ornament prints. This certainly applies to the sheets in the so-called cosses de pois (peapod) style, such as this stylized, almost abstract bouquet.
- Artwork typeprint, ornamentprent
- Object numberRP-P-2018-1802-54
- Dimensionsheight 266 mm x width 216 mm
- Physical characteristicsets en gravure