Thursday, August 5, 2021

Jan Lievens - Physiognomic Prints - I

Jan Lievens
Old Man wearing a Turban
ca. 1630-32
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jan Lievens
Study of an Old Man
ca. 1630-32
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jan Lievens
Old Man wearing a Cap
before 1674
etching
British Museum

Jan Lievens
Study of an Old Man
ca. 1640
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jan Lievens
Study of an Old Man
before 1674
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

attributed to Jan Lievens
Old Man wearing a Fur Coat
before 1674
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jan Lievens
Portrait of an Old Man
ca. 1632-35
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jan Lievens
Study of an Old Bearded Man
before 1674
etching
British Museum

Jan Lievens
Study of an Old Man
before 1674
chiaroscuro woodcut
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Jan Lievens
Study of an Old Man
before 1674
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jan Lievens
Study of an Old Man
before 1674
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jan Lievens
Oriental wearing a Fur Hat
ca. 1625-32
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jan Lievens
Study of an Old Bearded Man
ca. 1630-32
etching
British Museum

Jan Lievens
Old Man wearing a Fur Coat
before 1674
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jan Lievens
Man wearing a Fur Hat
before 1674
etching
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Jan Lievens (1607-1674) – Dutch painter, etcher and designer of woodcuts.  His reputation has been eclipsed by that of his friend Rembrandt, but Lievens was a more precocious artist.  . . .  During c. 1625-31 he may have shared a studio with Rembrandt; the two young men worked on each other's pictures, and their hands occasionally were, and still are, confused.  . . .  In 1630 Lievens was adjudged superior to Rembrandt in grandeur of invention and boldness, while Rembrandt surpassed Lievens in the expression of inner life.

 – Erika Langmuir and Norbert Lynton, The Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists (2000)