5315 - Ilsted, Peter

Ilsted, Peter Woman Playing. Etching on Van Gelder Zonen handmade paper. 26.4 x 20.3 cm. Traces of the signature. (1899). Olufsen-Svensson (Etchings) 37, see Christopher Mendez, in: Print Quarterly, June 1989, Vol. VI, p. 433. In his brief note on this etching by Ilsted, Christopher Mendez mentions that Ilsted was a passionate collector of 17th-century Dutch prints. Some prints from his collection can be seen on the wall in front of which the woman at the piano is standing. Mendez identifies Rembrandt’s “Young Man with a Velvet Beret” (B. 268), Nanteuil’s “Portrait of the Comte de Dumois” (Petitjean & Wickert 64), and Ostade’s “The Barrel Organ Player” (B. 8). The scene is presumably set in Ilsted’s apartment on Gammel Kongevej in Copenhagen. With the etched musical staff in the lower left corner, in a magnificent proof print with wide margins. Slightly browned and with foxing; two diagonal creases in the upper right corner, as well as a horizontal fold; small marginal discoloration in the lower left corner; other minimal creases; otherwise in good condition. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog.