Petrus Arendzen made several hundred etchings so I have been forced to make a selection. However, it is my intention eventually to catalogue and publish as much of his work as I can.
Most of the etchings on these pages are copies from Old Masters. However, for brevity, I have not indicated in the titles of the etchings that they are “after” the originals.
The Rijksmuseum lists more than one hundred works by Petrus. If you click the link to the Rijksmuseum under ‘Useful Links’ you can search their collection.
Cows on a Farm by Paulus Potter.
The Dutch painter Paulus Potter (1625-1654) painted about a hundred pictures, mainly landscapes featuring animals, before his early death from tuberculosis. Petrus made a number of etchings from the paintings of Paulus Potter and the one shown here is fairly typical of the genre.