Caesar van Everdingen Cupid with Crystal Ball (Vanitas) ca. 1650-55 oil on canvas private collection |
Caesar van Everdingen Abduction of Europa ca. 1650 oil on canvas private collection |
Caesar van Everdingen Jupiter and Callisto 1655 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
Caesar van Everdingen Four Muses and Pegasus ca. 1648-50 oil on canvas Paleis Huis ten Bosch, The Hague |
Caesar van Everdingen Weeping Woman (possibly Lucretia) ca. 1650-60 oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
Caesar van Everdingen Portrait of Burgomaster Willem Jacobsz Baert 1671 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
Caesar van Everdingen Trompe l'oeil with Bust of Venus 1665 oil on canvas Mauritshuis, The Hague |
Caesar van Everdingen Trompe l'oeil with Bust of Adonis 1666 oil on canvas Michaelis Collection, Cape Town, South Africa |
Caesar van Everdingen Vertumnus and Pomona ca. 1637-40 oil on panel Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
attributed to Caesar van Everdingen Vertumnus and Pomona ca. 1650 oil on canvas Getty Museum, Los Angeles |
Caesar van Everdingen Nymphs offering the young Bacchus Wine, Fruit and Flowers ca. 1670 oil on canvas Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf |
Caesar van Everdingen Holy Family ca. 1655-65 oil on canvas Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht |
Caesar van Everdingen Diogenes looking for an Honest Man (Portrait of the Steyn Family) 1652 oil on canvas Mauritshuis, The Hague |
Caesar van Everdingen Officers and Standard-Bearers of the Old Civic Guard 1657 oil on canvas Stedelijk Museum, Alkmaar |
Caesar van Everdingen Young Woman with Sunhat ca. 1645-50 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
Caesar van Everdingen hailed from a distinguished family of artists that included his younger brother Allart van Everdingen, a noted draftsman and engraver. Although Caesar spent most of his life in his native Alkmaar in the Netherlands, scholars associate him with the Haarlem school of painting. The Haarlem school painters created idealized, classicizing history paintings and genre in the mid-1600s. Everdingen's paintings similarly emphasized draftsmanship, but the sensuality and prominence of his figures distinguishes his pictures from others of the Haarlem school.
– biographical notes from the Getty Museum, Los Angeles