Johan Christiaan Willem Safft

Johan Christiaan Willem Safft is known through a select body of graphic work dating to the late 18th century, with his documented active period centered around 1788. His known output, represented in major institutional collections, focuses on landscape and rural genre scenes executed in printmaking and drawing media.

The documented works emphasize detailed natural settings and figures engaged in pastoral activity. Examples of his compositions include the scenic Boomrijk rivierlandschap met visser, the rural genre study Reiziger bij een boerderij, and Twee rustende figuren naast een bospad. Seven works attributed to Safft, comprising six prints and one drawing, are held in collections, most notably at the Rijksmuseum. The presence of multiple impressions in the database, such as the two recorded examples of Man met een spade bij een boerderij, indicates the circulation and significance of these Johan Christiaan Willem Safft prints during his period of activity.

As a graphic artist active in the period preceding the turn of the 19th century, Safft’s surviving work provides valuable insight into 18th-century representations of landscape. Preserved today in the public domain, his compositions are available for scholarly access, often reproduced as high-quality prints for non-commercial study.