page_title: Jan van Haelbeck
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Jan van Haelbeck / Work
context_page_description: Jan van Haelbeck or Jan van Haelbeeck was a Flemish engraver. He was mainly active in Paris in the first 30 years of the 17th century and helped introduce copper engraving as a technique in French printing. He worked on various publication projects on religious and worldly subjects and portraits.
context_section_description: Jan van Haelbeck worked on many publication projects.  Some of these were original creations.  Others were re-engravings of popular works published earlier.  An example of the latter is the publication Ecclesiae Militantis Triumphi published by Jean Leclerc IV in Paris in the early 1600s. This publication was a reworking in laterally reversed format of a 1585 Jesuit publication, which comprised 32 prints engraved by Giovanni Battista de'Cavalieri depicting in graphic detail the martyrdoms of various saints.
  It is believed that Jan van Haelbeck made the engravings for the Livre de portraiture d’Annibal Carrache, a study book on portrait drawing by Annibale Carracci which was published in 1667 by François de Poilly in Paris.
  Jan van Haelbeck engraved a series of prints, which were published in Paris by Jean Leclerc IV around 1615 under the title Énigme joyeuse pour les bons esprits.  The images created by van Haelbeck are accompanied by verses in French that are full of double-entendres of an obscene nature. Van Haelbeck’s series was very popular and was regularly reprinted as illustrations in publications of an indelicate sort that were principally marketed to Europe’s university students.  Versions of various of the engravings appear, for instance, in a number of tomes by German printmaker Peter Rollos the Elder, published in Germany between 1619 and the late 1630s.
  Jan van Haelbeck produced a number of portraits including of Henri IV of France and the Venetian doge Leonardo Donato.
caption: Enigme joyeuse pour les bons esprits
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