Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Adriaen van Stalbemt (Populous and Idealized Landscapes)

Adriaen van Stalbemt
Castle on a Lake
ca. 1620-50
oil on panel
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

attributed to Adriaen van Stalbemt
Allegory of the Four Elements
ca. 1620-30
oil on copper
private collection

Adriaen van Stalbemt
Landscape with Peasants
before 1662
oil on copper
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne

Adriaen van Stalbemt
Feast of the Gods
before 1662
oil on canvas
private collection

Adriaen van Stalbemt
Wooded Landscape
before 1662
oil on copper
private collection

Adriaen van Stalbemt
Vertumnus and Pomona
before 1662
oil on copper
private collection

Adriaen van Stalbemt
The Horatii entering Rome
before 1662
oil on panel
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Adriaen van Stalbemt
River Landscape with Peasants
before 1662
oil on copper
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm


Adriaen van Stalbemt
Paul and Barnabas at Lystra
ca. 1610-20
oil on copper
Städel Museum, Frankfurt

Adriaen van Stalbemt
The Finding of Moses
before 1662
oil on canvas
National Trust, Melford Hall, Suffolk

Adriaen van Stalbemt
View near Brussels
before 1662
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Adriaen van Stalbemt
Forest Landscape
before 1662
oil on panel
private collection

Adriaen van Stalbemt
Allegory of Mercy
before 1662
oil on copper
private collection

Paulus Pontius after Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of Adriaen van Stalbemt
before 1658
engraving
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Paulus Pontius after Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of Adriaen van Stalbemt
page from an album assembled ca. 1688-98
engraving à la poupée
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

"The Flemish painter and printmaker Adriaen van Stalbemt worked mainly in Antwerp, where he enjoyed a long and productive career.  Although he is best remembered today as a painter of landscapes, in his own day he was probably known chiefly as a figure painter.  Besides landscape views, he painted religious, mythological and allegorical scenes, as well as gallery interiors.  His oeuvre shows great stylistic variety, but owing to a paucity of dated paintings, it is difficult to establish a reliable chronology.  A gifted figure painter, he was regularly invited to paint the staffage in the compositions of his fellow painters."

– from a biographical sketch published by Van Haeften, Antwerp