Pieter Tanjé

Pieter Tanjé, self-portrait (1760).

Pieter Tanjé (born February 15, 1706 in Bolsward (Friesland) , † June 29, 1761 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch engraver .

Life

Initially, Pieter Tanjé was the servant of a ranger on a regulated shipping connection between Bolsward ( Friesland ) and Amsterdam. He used his free time on the ship to artistically engrave snuff boxes. In Amsterdam he made the acquaintance of Jacob Folkema , who was already a well-known engraver at the time and also came from Friesland. The skill of Pieter Tanjé in engraving tobacco boxes was the reason for Jacob Folkema to recommend him to enroll at the drawing academy of the city of Amsterdam (later renamed the Koninklijke Akademie van Beeldende Kunsten ). At the age of 24 he became an apprentice to Bernard Picart , Jacobus Houbraken , Cornelis Troost and Jacob de Wit, among others .

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His first larger works in 1734 and 1737 were two plates after paintings by Michele Rocca (1671–1751), who was also called Parmegianini . These were the paintings Flora on Clouds surrounded by Genii and the organ-playing Saint Cecilia . He then worked a lot for the book trade, including making copperplate engravings for an illustrated Bible for the book publisher Isaak Tirion and for Albert Seba's thesaurus . Tanjé often used drawings by Louis Fabricius Dubourg as a template for his copperplate engravings . Tanjé also provided numerous portraits of well-known and famous people, including one of William I of Orange-Nassau . He also made engravings from then modern drawings and paintings, for example from works by Cornelis Troost. Commissioned by the Old Masters Picture Gallery in Dresden, he made eight engravings of historical paintings. For the two-volume biographical book of Johan van Gool De nieuwe Schouburg of the Nederlantsche Kunstschilders en Schilderessen , he engraved more than 100 portraits of painters, mostly after portrait drawings by Aart Schouman . His last work was the family portrait of Baron von Erlach, which he could no longer complete.

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Some copper engravings by Pieter Tanjé from the collection of Carl Heinrich von Heineken , which can be seen in the copper engraving cabinet of the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden:

Engraving after Lucretia and Tarquinius by Luca Giordano
Engraving after The Cardsharps by Valentin de Boulogne
Engraving after Cupid's Dance by Francesco Albani

Web links

Commons : Pieter Tanjé - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (Dresden), Galeriewerk Heineken, compilation of copper engravings - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Engraving Cabinet. Website of the Dresden State Art Collections

Individual evidence

^ Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist lexicon . Volume 18, EA Fleischmann, Munich 1848, pp. 96-100.
^ Johan van Gool: De nieuwe schouburg der Nederlantsche kunstschilders en schilderessen . Volume 1. J. van Gool, The Hague 1750, archive.org .

personal data
SURNAME	Tanjé, Pieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch engraver
DATE OF BIRTH	February 15, 1706
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bolsward (Friesland)
DATE OF DEATH	June 29, 1761
Place of death	Amsterdam

[1] Georg Kaspar Nagler: New general artist lexicon . Volume 18, EA Fleischmann, Munich 1848, pp. 96-100.

[2] Johan van Gool: De nieuwe schouburg der Nederlantsche kunstschilders en schilderessen . Volume 1. J. van Gool, The Hague 1750, archive.org .