Offered by White Rose Fine Art
Pieter de Jode (Antwerp 1570 – 1634 Antwerp)
Four Scenes from the Life of a Monastic Saint
Each pen and brown ink, brown wash, brown ink framing lines, 49 x 39 mm
Provenance
- Anthony Freire Marreco (1915–2006)
- De Gimbe collection, Brussels
Pieter de Jode was born as the son of Gerard de Jode (c.1517–1591) of Nijmegen, who had settled in Antwerp as printmaker and publisher by 1547. According to Carel van Mander’s Schilder-boeck of 1604 Pieter was taught by Hendrick Goltzius, presumably in the late 1580s or early 1590s. Around 1595 De Jode travelled to Siena, Venice, Rome and Paris. He became a member of the Antwerp guild of St Luke in 1600 as ‘plaatsnijder’ (engraver), and married Suzanna Verhulst in 1602, the sister-in-law of Jan Brueghel the Elder and niece of Pieter Coecke van Aelst.
It is possible these four scenes were cut from a larger sheet, where they may have formed a border – an intact sheet with eleven scenes from the life of St Elizabeth of Hungary is preserved in the British Museum, London (see last fig.).
