{"id":24156,"date":"2018-06-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-26T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/dev-en\/antiek\/uncategorized\/four-seasons-abraham-delfos\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:46:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:46:01","slug":"four-seasons-abraham-delfos","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/inter-antiquariaat.nl\/en\/antiques\/sold\/four-seasons-abraham-delfos\/","title":{"rendered":"Four seasons &#8211; Abraham Delfos after Jan Wandelaar, 1791"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\" lang=\"en\"><strong><span title=\"\">THE FOUR SEASONS<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\" title=\"\">Drawing in pencil and watercolor made in <strong>1791<\/strong> by <strong>Abraham Delfos<\/strong> after a painting by Jan Wandelaar from 1752.<\/span> <span class=\"\" title=\"\">Signed and dated on the stone in the front.<\/span> <span title=\"\">Size: <\/span><span class=\"\" title=\"\">31,8 x 24,2 cm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"\" title=\"\">We see four putti representing the seasons.<\/span> <span class=\"\" title=\"\">Spring is sniffing lavender, an aphrodisiac commonly used in Antiquity;<\/span> <span class=\"\" title=\"\">Autumn looks at us and gestures with grapes at a chalice that we need to make wine, the grape leaves are bound in a wreath around his head;<\/span> <span title=\"\">in summer it is warm and the putto takes a nap on the harvested corn;<\/span> <span title=\"\">Winter warms itself above a bowl of glowing coals.<\/span> <span class=\"\" title=\"\">In the background there is a ruin with a rosette with the signs of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zodiac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">zodiac<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Janus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Janus<\/a>, the two faced god.<\/span> The <span title=\"\">young face on the left is January, the New Year;<\/span> <span title=\"\">the old face (traditionally with beard) represents the old year.<\/span> <span class=\"\" title=\"\">One looks to the future, the other to the past, referring <\/span><span title=\"\">to the cycle of life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"tlid-translation translation\" lang=\"en\"><span title=\"\">Abraham Delfos (1731-1820) was an engraver, draftsman and art dealer in a time when when there were lots of old paintings on the Dutch market.<\/span> <span title=\"\">As an art dealer, he had an almost daily opportunity to expand his knowledge.<\/span> <span class=\"\" title=\"\">Delfos knew his colleague <a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10934\/RM0001.COLLECT.619505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jan Wandelaar<\/a> (1690-1759) from Leiden, where the latter worked on a famous book with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernhard_Siegfried_Albinus#\/media\/File:Albinus_t01.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">anatomical prints<\/a> of the human body.<\/span> <span class=\"\" title=\"\">(Nice detail: in a rather dull <em>Geschiedenis der Vaderlandsche Schilderkunst<\/em> [History of Dutch Painting] published in 1816, it is mentioned that the beauty of Jan Wanderlaars second wife, a certain Catharina Beatrix van Eyk, should not go unnoticed.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Price: SOLD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE FOUR SEASONS Drawing in pencil and watercolor made in 1791 by Abraham Delfos after a painting by Jan Wandelaar from 1752. Signed and dated on the stone in the front. Size: 31,8 x 24,2 cm. We see four putti representing the seasons. 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