Monday, August 23, 2021

Eglon van der Neer (Shimmering Surfaces)

Eglon van der Neer
Woman descending Steps
1665
oil on panel
private collection

Eglon van der Neer
Woman with a Dog
ca. 1664-66
oil on panel
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe

Eglon van der Neer
Woman washing her Hands
ca. 1675
oil on panel
Mauritshuis, The Hague

Eglon van der Neer
Woman tuning a Lute
ca. 1675
oil on panel
private collection

Eglon van der Neer
Couple in an Interior
(with stamped and gilded leather wallcovering)
ca. 1660-63
oil on panel
private collection

Eglon van der Neer
Seated Woman with Maidservant
1680
oil on canvas
private collection

Eglon van der Neer
Interior with Card Game
ca. 1664
oil on canvas
(appears to have been over-cleaned, removing layers of glaze)
Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull

Eglon van der Neer
Woman with Handkerchief
ca. 1680
oil on panel
private collection

Eglon van der Neer
Woman playing the Lute
1675
oil on panel
Leiden Collection, New York

Eglon van der Neer
Wife of Candaules discovering the hiding Gyges
ca. 1660-62
oil on canvas
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf


Eglon van der Neer
Shepherd and Shepherdess in a Landscape
1698
oil on panel
Staatsgalerie, Bayreuth

Eglon van der Neer
Shepherd and Shepherdess (detail)
1698
oil on panel
Staatsgalerie, Bayreuth

Eglon van der Neer
Tobias and the Angel
1690
oil on panel
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Eglon van der Neer
Woman at Breakfast
1665
oil on panel
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Eglon van der Neer
Judith with the Head of Holofernes (detail)
ca. 1678
oil on panel
National Gallery, London

Eglon van der Neer (1634-1703) was born at Amsterdam and died at Düsseldorf.  He was first taught by his father, and then took lessons from Jacob van Loo, whose chief business then consisted in painting figures in the landscapes of Wynants and Hobbema.  When van Loo went to Paris in 1663 to join the school from which Boucher afterwards emerged, he was accompanied or followed by Eglon.  But, leaving Paris about 1666, he settled at Rotterdam, where he dwelt for many years.  Later on he took up his residence at Brussels, and finally went to Düsseldorf, where he entered the service of the elector-palatine Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz.  In each of the places where he stopped Eglon married, and having had three wives became the father of twenty-five children.

– from the biography of the artist in the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica