Joachim Von Sandrart (1606-1688) Biblical Episodes, 3 Original Drawings

Joachim von Sandrart (1606-1688)
Three biblical episodes, 3 original drawings
- The Ascension of Elijah
- The Judgment of Solomon
- Benjamin receiving gifts
Each: 9.2 x 7.7 cm
Pen and black ink, brown wash black ink on paper
In fairly good condition: some foxingss (see photos)
19th century mount with the name of the artist and the title of each episode
Period frames (very damaged)
The three drawings are similar to the Histoires de Moïse, drawing now in the Louvre museum.
They have the same floral framing and the same technique and are generally very close from a stylistic point of view. We can argue that they were produced at the same time by the artist.

Sandrart was born in Frankfurt am Main in 1606, but his family is from Mons / Bergen. According to his art dictionary called the Teutsche Academie, he learned to read and write with Theodor de Bry's son Johann Theodoor de Brie and his partner Matthäus Merian, but at 15 he was so keen to know more on the art of engraving, which he walked from Frankfurt to Prague to become a pupil of Aegidius Sadeler of the Sadeler family. Sadeler in turn urged him to paint, after which he went to Utrecht in 1625 to become a pupil of Gerrit van Honthorst, and through him he met Rubens when he visited Honthorst in 1627, to recruit him for a collaboration. with part of his Marie cycle of 'Medici. Honthorst took Sandrart with him on his trip to London. In 1627 Sandrart booked a passage on a ship from London to Venice, where he was greeted by Jan Lis and Nicolao Renier. He then left for Bologna, where he met his cousin on the side of his father Michael the Blond, a famous engraver. With him, he crossed the mountains to Florence, then to Rome, where they met Pieter van Laer. Sandrart became famous as a portrait painter. After a few years, he undertook a tour of Italy, going to Naples, where he studied Vesuvius, considered to be the entrance to the Elyos fields described by Virgil. From there he traveled to Malta and beyond, in search of literary sites to see and paint, and wherever he went, he paid his way by selling portraits. It wasn't until he finished traveling that he finally returned to Frankfurt, where he married Johanna de Milkau. Fearing political unrest and the plague, he moved to Amsterdam with his wife in 1637. In Amsterdam, he worked as a painter of genre works and portraits. He gained a very good audience as a painter, winning a lucrative commission for a large piece commemorating the state visit of Marie de Medici in 1638, which is suspended at the Rijksmuseum. This piece cemented his reputation as a leading painter, and in 1645 Sandrart decided to cash in and go home when he received an inheritance in Stockau, outside Ingolstadt. Although he rebuilt the old family property, it was burnt down by the French. He sold it and moved to Augsburg, where he painted for the family of Maximilian I, the elector of Bavaria. When his wife died in 1672, Sandrart moved to Nuremberg, where he married Hester Barbara Bloemaart, the daughter of a city magistrate. It was there that he started writing. He is well known as the author of books on art, some in Latin, and especially for his historical work, the Teutsche Academie, published between 1675 and 1680.