Test 3 Flashcards
Rubens
Self-Portrait with Isabella Brandt
1609-10
- The skirt folds over his foot (sexual connotations indicating their union)
de La Tour
The Newborn Child
1645
- Candle light hidden by St. Ann’s hand seems to be coming from Christ
Honthorst
The Procuress
1625
- inspiration from Caravaggio (tenebrism and dark repoussoir figure)
- unlike Caravaggio the viewer can see the source of light
Brugghen
The Calling of St. Matthew
1621
- figures are wearing contemporary clothing while Jesus and Peter are in biblical attire
- Brugghen lived in Rome same time as Caravaggio
Hooch
The Linen Cupboard
1663
- supposed to depict the organized, concise, arranged household that tells a lot about Dutch society
Kalf
Still Life with a Late-Ming Jar
1669
- the peeled lemon is his thing or trick
- Dutch are strict and religious, they also enjoy their wealth
Rembrandt
The Return of the Prodigal Son
1666-68
- protagonist is being shown in the after effect of his loose living, normally not depicted this way)
Vermeer
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
1664-65
- getting away from a tonal palette and based this painting on triad of primary colors
Rembrandt
The Night Watch
1642
- not original title
- gold woman is possible otherworldy symbol of the group (chicken for Frans Banning Coq), bird talons are insignia of the group
- also was added in later probably to balance out the man in black with the man in gold
Borch
Parental Admonition
1654-55
- considered a scene where her father’s scolding her and telling her how to be a respectable young lady
- possibly a brothel scene but doesn’t fit expectations of one
Rubens
The Garden of Love
1630-32
- sky and landscape influenced by Venetian painting
Saenredam
Interior of the Grote Kerk at Haarlem
1636-37
- called his paintings perspectives
- originally a Catholic church but was white washed and stain glass removed
de La Tour
The Cheat with Ace of Diamonds
1603-04
- Smooth flesh and extreme attention to detail in the fabric shows it is Northern
- indirectly influenced by Caravaggio
Rubens
The Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus
1618
- Female figure poses can be taken from ancient statues/high Renaissance drawings
Hals
Regents of the Old Men’s Almshouse
1664
- Hals was 80 when he painted this, the handling of the paint is even looser (possibly because of age, wisdom, or both)
Claesz
Vanitas Still Life
1630
- vanitas: vanity (more about passage of time)
- reminder of mortality
Rembrandt
Self Portrait at the Age of Thiry-Four
1640
- pretty much a direct lift from the most famous high renaissance portraits:
- Titian, Man with the Blue Sleeve (form)
- Raphael, Baldassare Castiglione (palette)
- also Leonardo’s sfumatto
Vermeer
The Little Street
1657-58
- the cropping makes it look photographic
Steen
Beware of Luxury
1663
- lady of the house fell asleep and all hell broke loose
Le Brun
The Tent of Darius
1660-01
- Commissioned by Louis XIV
- Louis liked to drop in to see how it was coming
- Every single gesture can be threaded into the story of the painting
Rubens
The Raising of the Cross
1610-11
- there is a painting on the outside of the left and right panels that can be scene when it is closed
- shows Italian influence
- Christ never before depicted in the the middle of the raising of the cross
Hals
Officers and Sergeants of the St. Hadrian Civic Guard Company
1633
- early group portraits were stiff, boring, from the sholder up
- he has given them energy and life but with the table honors the old format
Hals
Malle Babbe
1630-33
- has been called The Witch of Harlem
- has been regarded as a type yet she is a real person
- owl: witches, “drunk as an owl”, “owl of the night”
- Hal’s son had mental difficulties as well and he probably empathized with her
Le Vau and Le Nôtre
Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte
1656-61
- Man’s dominance over the natural world
- Uclidian geometric formulas to plot the garden
Rubens
The Arrival of Marie de’Medici at Marseilles
1622-25
- one of 21, #6 in the series
- was commissioned to be done by only the hand of Rubens
Lorrain
Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba
1648
- Heavily influenced by Italian painting
Vouet
Presentation in the Temple
1641
- While they are monumental, full figures (high Renaissance/Roman Baroque) there is also a softness and delicacy (French)
Le Vau and Le Brun
Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte
Salon à l’italienne
1656-61
- lots of open space
Rembrandt
Self-Portrait with Maulstick, Palette, and Brushes
mid 1660s
- not wearing a costume
- accepting his mortality
- circles in the background: considered a great craftsman if you can draw a perfect circle free-handed like Giatto, comparing himself to Giatto
The Le Nain Brothers
Peasant Family in an Interior
1645-48
- When Dutch paintings had peasant scenes, they were more judging or mocking, but it was not like that in French peasant scenes
- Palette similar to The Stonebreakers
- Bread and wine: Eucharistic connotations
Boucher
Madame de Pompadour
1756
- represents the end of the old era and the beginning of the new
Rigaud
Louis XIV
1701
- Larger than life
- State portrait
- White fur is only allowed to be worn by royalty
- Portrait of the man, the kind, and the state
Houdouin-Mansart and Le Brun
Hall of Mirrors
Palace of Versailles
1678-84
- mirrors reflect sun coming from windows (sun king)
- meant to intimidate
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Le Vau
Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte (Plan)
1656-61
- apartment for the king is included
Ruysch
Flower Still Life
after 1700
- not all of the flowers are in bloom at the same time, revealing to the viewer that this is not real and there is a deeper meaning
- beauty passes and is fleeting
- poppy symbolizes eternal sleep
- bumble bee pollinating it brings new life
Rembrandt
Christ Healing the Sick
1636
- didn’t destroy plate and people kept printing; knowing when the print was printed is important to the value
Vermeer
The Concert
1665-66
- while there is a marble flooring here, a private home very rarely had marble flooring
- painting a household he is painting their value, but we don’t know if this is an accurate representation of living here at this time
Honthorst
The Merry Fiddler
1623
- considered a genre painting or genre “portrait”
