Saturday, August 28, 2021

Caesar van Everdingen (Classicizing, Idealizing)

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