11 octobre 2021
Clouds, Ice, and Bounty: The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Collection of Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings
Simon de Vlieger, Estuary at Day's End, c. 1640/1645, oil on panel, Patrons’ Permanent Fund and The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund in memory of Kathrine Dulin Folger, 1997.101.1.
Washington, DC—From majestic seascapes and expansive landscapes to lively genre scenes and rich still lifes, Dutch and Flemish paintings of the 1600s reveal the ways art helped the young Dutch Republic define a collective cultural identity. On view from October 17, 2021, through February 27, 2022, Clouds, Ice, and Bounty: The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund... [Lire la suite]10 mai 2018
Simon de Vlieger (1600/01 Rotterdam - 1653 Weesp), Anchoring ships in front of a dike
Lot 1054. Simon de Vlieger (1600/01 Rotterdam - 1653 Weesp), Anchoring ships in front of a dike. Oil on wood (parqueted). 69 x 107 cm. Estimate: € 50,000 - € 60,000 © Lempertz
Certificate: Prof. Dr. Jan Kelch, Berlin, 12.3.2013.
Note: Coastal landscapes and marine representations belong to the genres of landscape, which flourished in the 17th century in the maritime power Holland. Simon de Vlieger is one of the most prominent representatives of this genre. He lived successively in Rotterdam, Delft, Amsterdam... [Lire la suite]14 mai 2009
'The Golden Age of Dutch Seascapes' @ The Peabody Essex Museum
The Darsna delle Galere and Castello Nuovo at Naples, 1703, Caspar van Wittel, Oil on panel, 755 x 1410mm, © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK.
SALEM, MA.- The Peabody Essex Museum presents The Golden Age of Dutch Seascapes, 70 works by Dutch masters of maritime art working in the time of Rembrandt and Vermeer. Painted during the peak years of Dutch artistic achievement between 1600 and 1700, these superlative, emotional works are the first in which European artists realistically depicted natural settings, rendering... [Lire la suite]