Friday, October 15, 2021

Romeyn de Hooghe (Dutch Panegyric and Satire)

Anonymous Copyist
Portrait of Romeyn de Hooghe
ca. 1730-50
watercolor
(copy of engraving)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Romeyn de Hooghe after Jacob Peeters
Battle of Imperial Troops against the Turks
to raise the Siege of Vienna in 1683

1690
hand-colored engraving
Royal Library, The Hague

Romeyn de Hooghe
Reception of the Prince and Princess of Orange
as King and Queen of Great Britain in 1688

ca. 1690
hand-colored engraving
Royal Library, The Hague

Romeyn de Hooghe
Battle of Saint-Denis, 1678
at the conclusion of the Franco-Dutch War

1678
hand-colored engraving
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Romeyn de Hooghe
Castle of Breukelen destroyed by the French in 1672
1672
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Romeyn de Hooghe
Truth, Mercury and Time observing
the painting of War in the Dutch Garden

1674
etching
(allegorical title-page)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Romeyn de Hooghe
Louis XIV as Devouring Lion
1672
etching
(political caricature)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Romeyn de Hooghe
Johan and Cornelis de Witt as a Fox and a Wolf
1672
etching
(political caricature)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Romeyn de Hooghe
Marforio (truth-telling Roman statue)
identifies James Stuart (the Old Pretender)
as a bastard (Jack of the Mill) on the occasion of
the death of his supposed father, King James II

1701
etching with letterpress
(cover of satirical political pamphlet)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Romeyn de Hooghe
Mercury
1688-89
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Romeyn de Hooghe
Egyptian Obelisk with Hieroglyphics
1693
etching and engraving
(book illustration)
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

Romeyn de Hooghe
Defeated Turks in Chains
(from a series glorifying the deeds
of the Order of Teutonic Knights)
1700
etching
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Romeyn de Hooghe
Fashion Plate
(from the series Figures à la Mode)
ca. 1670-85
etching and engraving
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Romeyn de Hooghe
Fashion Plate
(from the series Figures à la Mode)
ca. 1670-85
etching and engraving
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Romeyn de Hooghe
Carte Nouvelle de la Mer Mediterranée
1694
hand-colored engraving
private collection

"Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708) produced a world of art in many forms, including paintings, sculpture, medallic art, and temporary decorations for royal events.  Above all, however, De Hooghe is known for his etchings, and he completed a staggering four thousand-plus plates in his lifetime.  Active at a time when the small – but wealthy and powerful – Dutch Republic was engaged in a host of interactions, warlike and otherwise, with its European neighbors and far-flung colonial interests, De Hooghe offers a fascinating picture of the later Dutch Golden Age in all its complexity.  . . .  From his etching needle spring complex allegories praising or lampooning powerful figures of the day like William III of Orange and Louis XIV, city maps and sea charts, accounts of battles and natural disasters both at home and abroad, rendered in compelling style.  . . .  But along with his flair for the dramatic, De Hooghe also brought erudition and intellectual subtlety to his many book illustrations (the largest single group of prints he created) and an admirable visual ability to distill the subject matter of a varied slate of texts."

– from promotional text for a De Hooghe exhibition at the Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University (2009)