Pieter Dupont - ets: a/d Schinkel - 1895

Etching by Pieter Dupont. A/d Schinkel, summer 1895. Edition: No 41. Dimensions incl. passe-partout: H63 x w48cm. Dimensions: H23.5 x W21.5cm. The work is provided with a studio stamp at the bottom left. The total edition is 50 pieces. Literature: van Wisselingh no: 333.


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Pieter Dupont (Amsterdam, July 5, 1870 - Hilversum, February 7, 1911) was a Dutch watercolorist, graphic artist, painter, draftsman, book cover designer, pastelist, designer, drawing teacher and professor.

Lifecycle
Dupont was born as the son of Abraham Dupont and Anne Cathérine Marie Winter. In 1900 he married Frederike Vaarzon Morel. In 1906 his first son Pieter Jan was born and in 1908 his second son Willem Frederik was born. Willem Frederik Dupont is the author of the book Pieter Dupont, his life and works.
He received a short education in Amsterdam at the Quellinus Arts and Crafts School, the National Normal School for Drawing Teachers and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. He was a student of Carel Hendrik Helweg and Maurits van der Valk, among others. As a painter, Dupont was known in his early years for his Amsterdam cityscapes, in which the influence of GH Breitner was noticeable. In 1896 he moved to Paris, where he became skilled in etching. He worked there until 1900, and further worked in London, Nogent-sur-Marne (1900-1902), Auvers-sur-Oise (1903), Amsterdam (1903-1905), Hilversum, Oosterbeek and (Renkum) (1902).
Dupont was a teacher at the Drawing School for Art Crafts (1891-1896) and in 1902 became professor of graphic arts at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam. He designed postage stamps and banknotes and made landscapes, forest landscapes, portraits, church interiors and cityscapes. In 1906 he made a cover for the book Landlooperij for the Brusse publishers in Rotterdam. His work can be seen in, among others, the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo and the Singer Museum in Laren. A number of his etchings were published from 1893 by the EJ van Wisselingh company in Amsterdam, in editions of usually fifty to a hundred copies. The large number of his etchings and engravings depicting workhorses is striking. In 1908 he was asked to engrave a new 25 guilder note based on a design by AJ Derkinderen. Part of the engraving was completed when he became seriously ill at the end of 1910 and died a few weeks later of angina pectoris at the age of forty.