Thursday, August 26, 2021

Abraham van Diepenbeeck (Antwerp Rubenist)

Abraham van Diepenbeeck
Martyrdom of St Sebastian
1636
oil on panel
private collection

Abraham van Diepenbeeck
The Crucifixion
before 1660
oil on panel
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Abraham van Diepenbeeck
The Crucifixion
before 1660
oil on panel
private collection

Abraham van Diepenbeeck after Peter Paul Rubens
Cloelia crossing the Tiber
ca. 1635
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

attributed to Abraham van Diepenbeeck
Mercury entrusting the infant Bacchus to the Nymphs
before 1660
oil on canvas
private collection

Abraham van Diepenbeeck
The Flight into Egypt
ca. 1640-60
oil on panel
Art Institute of Chicago

attributed to Abraham van Diepenbeeck
The Deposition
ca. 1645
oil on paper, mounted on panel
Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Abraham van Diepenbeeck
The Lamentation
before 1660
oil on panel
private collection

Abraham van Diepenbeeck
Death of St Anthony Abbot
before 1660
oil on panel
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Abraham van Diepenbeeck
Enthroned Virgin bestowing the Rosary on a Supplicant
before 1675
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Abraham van Diepenbeeck
Judgment of Solomon
before 1675
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Abraham van Diepenbeeck
Resurrection of the Dead
before 1675
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Abraham van Diepenbeeck
Four Crowned Martyrs
ca. 1640-50
drawing
Groeningemuseum, Bruges

Abraham van Diepenbeeck
St Paul dictating at Ephesus
before 1675
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Abraham van Diepenbeeck
Neptune and Amphitrite
(design for embossing a basin)
before 1675
drawing
private collection

Abraham van Diepenbeeck (1596-1675) served as a favored assistant in the Antwerp studio of Peter Paul Rubens from the mid-1620s to the late 1630s, then establishing himself as a Free Master in the local guild of Saint Luke.  Although van Diepenbeeck did independently undertake a limited number of complex baroque narrative paintings on the model of Rubens, more of his time and energy as an independent artist went into designs for tapestries, ornaments, monuments, prints, illustrations, and paintings executed by others.