Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Michiel van der Voort the Elder (Late Baroque in Flanders)

Michiel van der Voort the Elder
Charity
before 1737
marble statue group
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Michiel van der Voort the Elder
Bust of Jacobus Franciscus van Caverson
ca. 1713
marble
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Michiel van der Voort the Elder
Study for the Virgin in a Crucifixion Group
ca. 1723
terracotta modello
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

Michiel van der Voort the Elder
Design for an Allegorical Statue
representing Time and Love

before 1737
drawing
Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp

Michiel van der Voort the Elder
Design for a Statue of Venus and Cupid
before 1737
drawing
Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp

Michiel van der Voort the Elder
Design for a Statue of a Faun making Music
before 1737
drawing
Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp

Michiel van der Voort the Elder
Designs for a Statue of St John the Evangelist
for a Crucifixion Group

before 1737
drawing
Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp

Michiel van der Voort the Elder
Design for a Sepulchral Monument
before 1737
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Michiel van der Voort the Elder
Design for a Sepulchral Monument
before 1737
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Michiel van der Voort the Elder
Design for a Sepulchral Monument
for the Dominican Church in Brussels
before 1737
drawing
Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp

Michiel van der Voort the Elder
Design for a Sepulchral Monument
for the Dominican Church in Brussels
before 1737
drawing
Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp

Michiel van der Voort the Elder
Design for Choir Stalls for St Michael's Church in Ghent
before 1737
drawing
Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp

Michiel van der Voort the Elder
Design for the Gate of a Chapel
before 1737
drawing
Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp

Michiel van der Voort the Elder
Design for a Medallion
with St Anne teaching the Virgin to read

before 1737
drawing
Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp

Michiel van der Voort the Elder
Design for a Reliquary in the form of a Tomb
before 1737
drawing
Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp

"A native of Antwerp, Michiel van der Voort was registered with the local guild of Saint Luke in 1690, and set off for Rome shortly after that date.  His sojourn there significantly influenced his artistic vocabulary, which visibly tempers the tendencies of the late Flemish Baroque style with the lessons of classical antiquity.  Van der Voort's images of saints and allegorical figures all display . . . a characteristically delicate yet brisk quality of modelling."

– from a biographical sketch published by Tomasso Brothers, London