Saturday, October 9, 2021

Gaspar de Crayer (Devotion and Portraiture in Brussels)

Gaspar de Crayer
Charles V crowned as Holy Roman Emperor
by Pope Clement VII at Bologna

ca. 1630
oil on canvas
Musée Ingres, Montauban

Gaspar de Crayer after Anthony van Dyck
The Lamentation
ca. 1649-56
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Gaspar de Crayer after Peter Paul Rubens
Descent from the Cross
ca. 1640-50
oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Gaspar de Crayer
Tobias and the Angel
before 1618
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent

Gaspar de Crayer
Equestrian Portrait of Gaspar de Guzmán,
Count-Duke of Olivares

ca. 1627
oil on canvas
private collection

Gaspar de Crayer
Equestrian Portrait of Philip IV of Spain
ca. 1628-32
oil on panel
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Gaspar de Crayer
Portrait of Ferdinand of Austria,
Cardinal Infante 

1639
oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

attributed to Gaspar de Crayer
Portrait of Anne of Tyrol,
Consort of Holy Roman Emperor Mathias

ca. 1615
oil on canvas
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Gaspar de Crayer
Job seated on a Dung-heap
1619
oil on canvas
Musée des Augustins de Toulouse

Gaspar de Crayer
Cimon and Pero
(Caritas Romana)

ca. 1645
drawing
British Museum

Gaspar de Crayer
Cimon and Pero
(Caritas Romana)

ca. 1620-30
oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Gaspar de Crayer
Martyrdom of St Catherine of Alexandria
1622
oil on canvas
Musée de Grenoble

Gaspar de Crayer
Virgin and Child enthroned
with Mary Magdalen, St Cecilia, St Dorothea,
St Catherine of Alexandria and St Augustine

1638
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Gaspar de Crayer
St John the Evangelist on Patmos
ca. 1649-69
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent

Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of Gaspar de Crayer
ca. 1627-35
drawing
Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth, Derbyshire

"Gaspar de Crayer was born in Antwerp but spent the majority of his career working in Brussels.  From an early stage De Crayer received important commissions for altarpieces, and in 1635 was appointed court painter to Cardinal Infante Ferdinand and later to Archduke Leopold William.  Although a considerable success in his own right, De Crayer was heavily influence by the work of Rubens and Van Dyck, helping to disseminate their high-baroque style beyond the artistic circles of Antwerp."

– from a biographical sketch at the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh