Sunday, October 23, 2016

Drawings and Prints by Karl Dujardin

Karel Dujardin
Self-portrait
1658
drawing
British Museum

Karel Dujardin of the Netherlands (1622-1678) produced honest but modest work. The culture around him deserves praise for supporting a career based so resolutely on the absolute everyday.

Karel Dujardin
Study of heads
17th century
etching
British Museum

Karel Dujardin
Countrywoman and sumpter-mule
17th century
etching
British Museum

Karel Dujardin
The Family
17th century
etching
British Museum

Karel Dujardin
Battlefield landscape
1652
etching
British Museum

The group of etchings below correspond more closely than those above to the standard one-line description of Dujardin's work  "small Italianate landscape scenes with animals and peasants."

Karel Dujardin
Four mountains
1659
etching
British Museum

Karel Dujardin
Goat and two sheep
1653
etching
British Museum

Karel Dujardin
Landscape with Three Oxen
1660
etching
British Museum

Karel Dujardin
Landscape with Asses
1660
etching
British Museum

Karel Dujardin
Ruins of a temple
1658
etching
British Museum

Karel Dujardin
Shepherd with dog
17th century
etching
British Museum

Karel Dujardin
Two muleteers in a landscape
1656
etching
British Museum

Karel Dujardin
Two goats at the edge of a river
17th century
etching
British Museum

Karel Dujardin
Trees with exposed roots
1659
etching
British Museum

I am grateful to the British Museum for making these excellent images available.