Wednesday, October 6, 2021

Jan de Bray (Haarlem Portraits)

Jan de Bray
Portrait of a Girl
1663
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jan de Bray
Penitent Magdalen
(Portrait of the Artist's third Wife,
Victoria Stalpaert van der Wiele)

1678
oil on panel
private collection

Jan de Bray
Portrait of Maria van Teffelen
1663
drawing
British Museum

Jan de Bray
Portrait of Agatha van der Horn,
wife of Cornelis Guldewagen

1663
oil on panel
Villa Vauban, Luxembourg

Jan de Bray
Portrait of Dammas Guldewagen
1657
oil on canvas
Dayton Art Institute, Ohio

Jan de Bray
Portrait of a Woman
1650
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Jan de Bray
Miniature Portrait of a Boy
ca. 1650
oil on copper
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Jan de Bray
Miniature Portrait of a Boy
ca. 1660-70
oil on copper
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Jan de Bray after Justus van Egmont
Portrait of Christina, Queen of Sweden
1655
drawing
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Jan de Bray
Portrait of a Youth
before 1697
drawing, with watercolor
Teylers Museum, Haarlem

Jan de Bray
Portrait of a Youth
before 1697
drawing, with watercolor
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jan de Bray
Portrait of a Youth
1676
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jan de Bray
Portrait of a Woman
1660
oil on canvas
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Jan de Bray
Portrait of a Man
ca. 1660-80
oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands

Jan de Bray
Young Woman at a Balustrade
1650
drawing
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

from Faces Seen in Dreams

On town streets, at the lake
All these figures move;
Their eyes show red and green,
Pierce and disappear.
Of course, this is a dream,
But some do slap the dead.
They do that for my sake.
Because it is my sleep
A few guess what is meant:
Decisive, always firm,
These ones do not relent.

– John Vincent Healy (1940)