Thursday, October 21, 2021

Carel de Moor (Leiden Faces and Figures)

Carel de Moor
Self Portrait
ca. 1675-80
oil on panel
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Carel de Moor
Self Portrait
ca. 1688-90
oil on canvas
private collection

Carel de Moor
Self Portrait
1690
engraving
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Carel de Moor
Portrait of Nicolaes Six painting
ca. 1690
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Carel de Moor
Head of a Young Woman
before 1738
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Carel de Moor
Head of a Young Woman
before 1738
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Carel de Moor
Portrait of a Youth
before 1738
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Carel de Moor
Portrait of an Old Woman
before 1738
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Carel de Moor
Profile Portrait of a Young Woman
before 1738
engraving
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Carel de Moor
Studies of Heads
before 1738
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Carel de Moor
Study for Beheading of St John the Baptist
1687
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Carel de Moor
Noli me tangere
before 1738
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Carel de Moor
Man wearing Ivy Wreath embracing a Reluctant Woman
before 1738
oil on canvas
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Carel de Moor
The Angler
ca. 1700
before 1738
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Carel de Moor
Magistrates of The Hague
1717
oil on canvas
Historical Museum, The Hague

"Carel de Moor (1655-1738) was born in Leiden, the son of an art dealer and frame maker.  According to Arnold Houbraken, he initially studied in Leiden with Gerrit Dou before a period in Amsterdam with Abraham van den Tempel.  He then returned to Leiden to study with Frans van Mieris the Elder, before completing his training under Godfried Schalcken in Dordrecht.  . . .  De Moor joined the Leiden Guild of St. Luke in 1683, and eleven years later, together with Willem van Mieris and Jacob van Toorenvliet, founded the Leidse Tekenacademie, where artists draw from live models.  Despite success in other genres, he focused increasingly on portraiture, and his reputation extended across Europe."

– from a biographical sketch published by Sphinx Fine Art, London