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(Accounts) after Jan Steen by Cornelis Ploos van Amstel (Accounts) after Jan Steen

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel 


1726 - 1798 (biography)
1777 -1786 (org. design 1672)
transfer technique with roulette and burnishing
Image Size
6 1/8 x 5 1/8" platemark
"J. Steen 1672", lower right image
Edition Size
ca 300
Amstel's personal reproduction stamp (coat of arms with a banner, on piece of turf) on the verso; pencil annotated, "J. Steen del= 1672. Ploos van Amstel fecit 17" also on verso.
Laurentius and Niemeijer 38, pg. 272 and Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-24.629
antique-white laid
Inventory ID

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel and his assistant, Rembrandt student Cornelis Brouwer reproduced drawings of the Masters using a unique transfer technique with added roulette and burnishing that he developed in the mid 18th century. This example, done between 1781-1786, is after a wash drawing by Dutch Master Jan Steen (1626 - 1679) originally done in 1672, over 100 years before practical photography was invented.

"A man of wealth, he (Amstel) was a drawing collector with over 5,000 drawings by 16th and 17th century masters. Between 1765 and 1787 he produced 46 facsimilies, in editions of 300 - 350 impressions.