Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Marten van Cleve and Hendrik van Cleve (Antwerp)

Marten van Cleve
Peasant Woman holding a Jug
ca. 1560
oil on panel
Philadelphia Museum of Art

attributed to Marten van Cleve
Kitchen Interior
ca. 1565
oil on panel
Skokloster Castle, Sweden

Marten van Cleve
The Slaughtered Ox
1566
oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Marten van Cleve after Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Massacre of the Innocents
ca. 1570
oil on panel
private collection

Marten van Cleve
The Good Shepherd
ca. 1560-80
oil on panel
private collection

Marten van Cleve
The Crucifixion
before 1581
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Johannes Wierix after Marten van Cleve
Crossing of the Red Sea
1585
hand-colored etching and engraving
British Museum

Hendrik van Cleve
The Deluge
before 1589
drawing
Yale University Art Gallery

Hendrik van Cleve
Rocky Estuary
1585
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Hendrik van Cleve
Landscape with Classical Ruins
before 1589
drawing
British Museum

Hendrik van Cleve
Landscape with Ruins and a Draughtsman
before 1589
drawing
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Hendrik van Cleve
Ruins of the Claudian Aqueduct, Rome (recto)
ca. 1545-50
drawing
British Museum

Hendrik van Cleve
Block of Ruined Masonry with Arched Openings
(verso of Ruins of the Claudian Aqueduct, Rome)
ca. 1545-50
drawing
British Museum

Hendrik van Cleve
Sculpture Garden of Cardinal Cesi, Rome
1584
oil on panel
Národní Galerie, Prague

Hendrik van Cleve
View of the Vatican Gardens and St Peter’s Basilica, Rome
ca. 1580
oil on panel
Fondation Custodia, Paris

"Hendrik van Cleve and his brother Marten were members of a large family of artists that originally came from Cleves in Germany, but they are the only two by whom works have been identified.  In 1551 they were both enrolled as masters in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke.  Van Mander (1604) writes that in Italy and elsewhere Hendrik drew a great deal from life that he was able to use in his work, although he did not actually visit all the places he depicted.  He produced among the earliest painted cityscapes without prominent figures.  Marten worked with, influenced, and was influenced by his more famous contemporary, Pieter Brueghel the Elder."  

– based on a biographical sketch at Fondation Custodia, Paris