Pieter Dupont - magnificent Etching on zinc - Field with haystacks - 1894 - edition of 50

• Etching from 1894-95, official Atelier P. Dupont stamp lower right.

Image size 10.1 x 20.5 cm. Sheet size 20 x 28 cm. Edition of only 50 copies (printed posthumously under the supervision of Willem Witsen).
Copy number 15. Van Wisselingh catalogue number 338. In good, sharp condition.
Origin: Borzo art dealer


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

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 followed a short training in Amsterdam at the Quellinus School of Applied Arts, the State Normal School for Drawing Teachers and the State Academy of Visual Arts. He was a pupil 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 trained in etching. He worked there until 1900, and continued to work 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 Teekenschool voor Kunstambachten (1891-1896) and in 1902 became professor of graphic art at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam. He designed 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 publisher Brusse in Rotterdam. His work can be seen in the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo and the Singer Museum in Laren, among others. A number of his etchings were published from 1893 onwards by the firm EJ van Wisselingh in Amsterdam, in editions of usually fifty to one hundred copies. The large number of his etchings and engravings depicting working horses is striking. In 1908 he was asked to engrave a new 25 guilder banknote based on a design by AJ Derkinderen. Part of the engraving was completed when he became seriously ill in late 1910 and died of angina pectoris a few weeks later at the age of forty.