DUJARDIN (Karel). Collection of engravings - Lot 14

DUJARDIN (Karel). Collection of engravings created between 1652 and 1665. (Printed around 1800). Folio size, black morocco-bound half-leather with corner pieces, spine with raised band decorated with gilt fillets (19th-century binding). Missing sections on the spine, leather-covered joints, water stains on the covers. Water stains in the corners, slight foxing. 52 copper engravings, arranged in 20 plates. A very rare collection of works by Karel Du-Jardin (1626–1678), a Dutch engraver of the Golden Age, known for his landscapes. A student of Nicolas Berchem (1620–1683) and Paulus Potter (1625–1654), he created these engravings after his stay in Italy, depicting scenes of pastoral life, animals, and rural landscapes in the Italian style, as well as battle scenes and picturesque portraits. Reissued in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, our set of prints on laid paper opens with a frontispiece featuring a fountain and concludes with *Le Petit Savoyard*; the print numbered 51 is by Nicolas Berchem.S