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Jan Johnson, Old Master & Modern Prints was founded in London in 1979 after nine years of research and work in the field, transferred three years later to Montreal, Quebec, and is now based in a historic town on the Richelieu River. We are happy to receive interested collectors by appointment, and we expand our circle of print acquaintances through annual print fairs, largely in the United States. Our large inventory covers the late 15th Century to the early 20th, but the Old Masters, the major names or the quirky minor ones, are our first love. We are also one of the few businesses offering early 20th Century Canadian printmakers. Our clients include both beginning and experienced collectors, as well as major museums in Europe and North America.
Old Master, 18th and 19th Century, Modern (1900-1950), Appraisals
Three Significant Quebec Etchers of the early 20th Century
An introduction to the work of Clarence Gagnon, Henry Ivan Neilson and Herbert Raine, all producing important bodies of prints in the first decades of the 20th Century.
Jean Mignon
Cassandra stopping Deiphobus from killing their brother Paris
c. 1544-45
321 x 440-445mm.
Etching
Fürst zu Fürstenberg; Dr. Eric Stanley
From a set of six scenes from the Trojan War after Luca Penni, by whom two related drawings survive. Bartsch 46; Zerner 43; Jenkins Pt II, p. 308, JM 43. A fine, early impression by an artist of the School of Fontainebleau
Monogrammist HCF
The Amorous Nun
c.1560
253 x 310mm.
Engraving
P & D Colnaghi
Nagler Monogrammisten III, 786; Hollstein, Monogrammists, 1; under Hans Collaert the Elder, 50. This very curious scene may be a critique of the want of chastity among the religious orders, three of which are here represented, but the allegory seems to go well beyond this.
William Pether
Farrier's Shop, after Joseph Wright of Derby
1771
507 x 354mm.
Mezzotint
Third state of three
Private New York collection
Chaloner Smith 49; J. Egerton, 1990, 158. A very good impression of this impressive print. Wright of Derby's paintings, with their dramatic lighting, were perfectly suited to the medium of mezzotint. and Pether was one of his best interpretors.
Giorgio Ghisi
The Visitation
1540-50
322 x 502mm.
Engraving
Fourth state of six, with the name of Lafreri erased but before that of Rossi, or later Losi.
Unidentified (Lugt 896); Somerville & Simpson 1970’s; Dr.Eric Stanley
After Francesco Salviati. Lewis, Lewis and Boorsch 10. Watermark: Pilgrim in circle with star (L, L & B 55; Briquet 7578). A fine, three-dimensional impression. The print differs in some respects from the fresco by Salviati in the oratorio of San Giovanni Decollato in Rome, which was painted in 1538.
Jan Verkolje
A Spaniel leaping to the left
1684
123 x 155mm.
Mezzotint
Second state of two with the artist’s inscription and date. A fine impression. Of the utmost rarity.
P & D Colnaghi
Hollstein 19. Jan Verkolje was a painter who trained under Jan Lievens, as well as making a small body of mezzotint engravings during the first decades after the invention of the technique around 1642, possibly under the influence of Abraham Blooteling. It is not certain whether Verkolje spent some years in England as many of the early Dutch mezzotinters did, greatly popularizing the medium there. Walpole cited him among the engravers published by A. Browne. As a painter he was not an animalier, but spaniels appear repeatedly in his indoor settings, as well as in a hunting portrait. Besides the leaping spaniel, he also mezzotinted a Sleeping Spaniel and a Spaniel crouching to the right, neither dated but presumed to be within the same time span.
Aegidius Sadeler
Portrait of Maerten de Vos, aged 60
ca. 1582
287 x 230mm
Engraving
First state of two
Private New York collection
Hollstein 340, first state of three, before the publisher’s address. A very good impression, trimmed just outside or on the platemark all round. De Vos was one of the most prolific Northern designers working with printmakers.
Albrecht Durer
Hans Baldung Grien
Abraham Blooteling
Hans Sebald Beham
Ferdinand Bol
Jacques Callot
Antonio Canal (Canaletto)
Agostino Carracci
G.B. Castiglione
Stefano della Bella
Marco Dente
Cornelis Dusart
Giorgio Ghisi
Hendrick Goltzius
Karl Wilhelm Kolbe
Michele Marieschi
Jacob Matham
Adriaen van Ostade
G.B. Piranesi
Marcantonio Raimondi
Marco Ricci
Jan Saenredam
Giandomenico Tiepolo
Enea Vico
Jan Gillisz Van Vliet
Anthonie Waterloo
Pierre Bonnard
Edgar Chahine
Francisco Goya
Camille Pissarro
James Tissot
Jacques Villon
Edouard Vuillard