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