Saturday, August 7, 2021

Dutch Drawings (Jan Lievens)

Jan Lievens
Forest Scene
ca. 1660-70
drawing
British Museum

Jan Lievens
Forest Scene with Cottage
before 1674
drawing
Harvard Art Museums

Jan Lievens
Forest Scene with Cows
ca. 1660-70
drawing
British Museum

Jan Lievens
Forest Scene with Fishermen
before 1674
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Jan Lievens
Forest Scene with Four Great Oaks
before 1674
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Jan Lievens
Forest Scene with Pool
ca. 1660-70
drawing
British Museum

Jan Lievens
Forest Scene with Shepherd
ca. 1660-70
drawing
British Museum

Jan Lievens
Pollard Willows
ca. 1660-70
drawing
British Museum

Jan Lievens
Study of Tree Trunk
ca. 1660-70
drawing
British Museum

Jan Lievens
River God with Eagle
before 1674
drawing
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Jan Lievens
Study of a Man
ca. 1630
drawing
British Museum

Jan Lievens
Portrait of a Man
before 1674
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

Jan Lievens
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1650-55
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jan Lievens
Study of a Youth
before 1674
drawing, with washes
Harvard Art Museums

attributed to Jan Lievens
Sleeping Woman
before 1674
drawing
Morgan Library, New York

"History has not been kind to Jan Lievens (1607-1674).  A child prodigy – whose talent was prized by connoisseurs and collectors in his native Leiden during his teenage years, whose services were sought by princely patrons in The Hague and London before he reached age twenty-five, and who later in life continued to receive important religious, civic, and portrait commissions in Antwerp, Amsterdam, and Berlin – Lievens barely registers today in the public consciousness."

– from notes to a 2009 Lievens retrospective organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, in association with the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam