Baroque Northern Europe

Chapter 25

Northern Europe

1600 – 1700

Baroque in Flanders, Dutch Republic, France and England

Europe in the 17th Century

Figure 25-2 PETER PAUL RUBENS, Elevation of the Cross, Antwerp Cathedral, Antwerp, Belgium, 1610. Oil on panel, 15’ 1 7/8” x 11’ 1 1/2” (center panel), 15' 1 7/8" x 4' 11" (each wing).

Baroque in Flanders

PETER PAUL RUBENS, drawing of Laocoön, ca.

1600-1608. Black-and-white chalk drawing with bistre

wash, approx. 1’ 7” x 1’ 7”. Ambrosiana, Milan.

Figure 25-3 PETER PAUL RUBENS, Arrival of Marie de’ Medici at Marseilles, 1622–1625. Oil

on canvas, approx. 5’ 1” x 3’ 9 1/2”. Louvre, Paris.

Figure 25-4 PETER PAUL RUBENS, Allegory of the Outbreak of War, 1638. Oil on canvas, 6’ 9” x 11’ 3 7/8”. Pitti Gallery, Florence.

Rubens, Garden of Lovec. 1633Oil on canvas, 198 x 283 cmMuseo del Prado, Madrid

Rubens, An Autumn Landscape with a View of Het Steenc. 1635Oil on wood, 137 x 235 cmNational Gallery, London

Figure 25-5 ANTHONY VAN DYCK, Charles I Dismounted, ca. 1635. Oil on canvas, approx. 9’

x 7’. Louvre, Paris.

Figure 25-6 CLARA PEETERS, Still Life with Flowers, Goblet, Dried Fruit, and Pretzels, 1611. Oil on panel, 1’ 7 3/4” x 2’ 1 1/4”. Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Baroque in Holland (Dutch Republic)

Figure 25-8 GERRIT VAN HONTHORST, Supper Party, 1620. Oil on canvas, approx. 7’ x 4’ 8”. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.

Figure 25-9 FRANS HALS, Archers of Saint Hadrian, ca. 1633. Oil on canvas, approx. 6’ 9” x 11’. Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem.

Figure 25-10 FRANS HALS, The Women Regents of the Old Men’s Home at Haarlem, 1664. Oil on canvas, 5’ 7” x 8’ 2”. Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem.

Malle Babbe1633-35Oil on canvas, 75 x 64 cm

Staatliche Museen, Berlin

The Merry Drinker1628-30Oil on canvas, 81 x 66,5 cm

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Figure 25-11 JUDITH LEYSTER, Self-Portrait, ca. 1630. Oil on canvas, 2’ 5 3/8” x 2’ 1 5/8”. National Gallery of Art, Washington (gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss).

Self-Portrait1629Oil on panel, 15,5 x 12,5 cmAlte Pinakothek, Munich

Self Portrait as a Young Man 1634Oil on canvas, 61 x 52 cmGalleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Self-portrait1640Oil on canvas, 102 x 80 cmNational Gallery, London

Figure 25-15 REMBRANDT VAN RIJN, Self-Portrait, ca. 1659–1660. Oil on

canvas, approx. 3’ 8 3/4” x 3’ 1”. The Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood House, London.

Self-Portrait1659Oil on canvas, 84,5 x 66 cm

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Figure 25-12 REMBRANDT VAN RIJN, Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, 1632. Oil on canvas, 5’ 3 3/4” x 7’ 1 1/4”. Mauritshuis, The Hague.

Figure 25-13 REMBRANDT VAN RIJN, The Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq (Night Watch), 1642. Oil on canvas (cropped from original size), 11’ 11” x 14’ 4”. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Figure 25-14 REMBRANDT VAN RIJN, Return of the Prodigal Son, ca. 1665. Oil on

canvas, approx. 8’ 8” x 6’ 9”. Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.

Figure 25-16 REMBRANDT VAN RIJN, Christ with the Sick around Him, Receiving the Children (Hundred Guilder Print), ca. 1649. Etching, approx. 11” x 1’ 3 1/4”. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York.

Figure 25-17 AELBERT CUYP, A Distant View of Dordrecht, with a Milkmaid and Four Cows, and Other Figures (The “Large Dort”), late 1640s. Oil on canvas, approx. 5’ 1” ´ 6’ 4 7/8”. National Gallery, London.

Figure 25-18 JACOB VAN RUISDAEL, View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overveen, ca. 1670. Oil on canvas, approx. 1’ 10” x 2’ 1”. Mauritshuis, The Hague.

Figure 24-51 DetailCentral detail of the city

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Figure 25-19 JAN VERMEER, The Letter, 1666. Oil on canvas, 1’ 5 1/4”

x 1’ 3 1/4”. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

JAN VERMEER, Allegory of the Art of Painting, 1670–1675. Oil on canvas, 4’ 4” x 3’ 8”. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Woman Holding a Balance1662-63Oil on canvas, 42,5 x 38 cmNational Gallery of Art, Washington

Girl with a Pearl Earringc. 1665Oil on canvas, 46,5 x 40 cmMauritshuis, The

Hague

Vermeer, The Little Street1657-58Oil on canvas, 54,3 x 44 cmRijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Figure 25-20 JAN STEEN, The Feast of Saint Nicholas, ca. 1660–1665. Oil

on canvas, 2’ 8 1/4” x 2’ 3 3/4”. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Figure 24-55 PIETER CLAESZ, Vanitas Still Life, 1630s. Oil on panel, 1’ 2” x 1’ 11 1/2”. Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg.

Figure 25-22 WILLEM KALF, Still Life with a Late Ming Ginger Jar, 1669. Oil on

canvas, 2’ 6” x 2’ 1 3/4”. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis.

Figure 25-23 RACHEL RUYSCH, Flower Still Life, after 1700. Oil on canvas, 2’ 6” x

2’. The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo (purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, gift of Edward Drummond

Libbey).

• Baroque in Flanders: Rubens—pageantry, opulent fabrics, large scale, vibrant colors with dynamic brushwork

• Baroque in the Dutch Republic:• Focus on genre, portraiture, landscape and other non-religious subjects• Captures a moment in time, engages the viewer, alludes to narrative,

interior spaces complex (Vermeer) dramatic but softened light• Rembrandt – religious and non-religious subjects, infused with dramatic

mood, psychological insight (compare to Caravaggio, Durer, Holbein)• Hals and Leyster- portraiture: capture a moment in time, genre subjects, “all

Prima” brushwork