Sunday, November 28, 2021

Sacred Images by Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painters

Roelant Savery
Paradise
1626
oil on panel
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Cornelis van Haarlem
Humanity before the Deluge
1615
oil on panel
Musée des Augustins de Toulouse

Arie de Vois
Jacob's Dream
ca. 1660-80
oil on panel
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Abraham Bloemaert
Landscape with the Prophet Elijah in the Desert
ca. 1610-20
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Gerrit van Honthorst
Samson and Delilah
ca. 1615
oil on canvas
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Gerrit van Honthorst
Adoration of the Shepherds
1632
oil on canvas
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio

Cornelis van Haarlem
The Good Samaritan
1627
oil on canvas
private collection

Cornelis van Haarlem
Preaching of St John the Baptist
1602
oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Jan van Bijlert
St John the Baptist in Prayer
ca. 1625-30
oil on canvas
Centraal Museum, Utrecht

attributed to Daniel Mytens after Raphael
The Miraculous Draught of Fishes
ca. 1625
oil on canvas
National Trust, Knole, Kent

Jan van Bijlert
Pilate washing his Hands
before 1671
oil on panel
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff

Abraham Bloemaert
The Lamentation
ca. 1625
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Frans Badens
St Sebastian
ca. 1600-1615
oil on canvas
Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, Corsica

Jan van Bijlert
St Sebastian attended by St Irene
before 1671
oil on canvas
private collection

Jan van de Venne
St Christopher and the Christ Child
before 1651
oil on panel
private collection

Moon Deluge

So still and luminous the night
That I might dream had come again
The Deluge – but of softer rain,
Shed from the full moon's mist of light –
And earth knew silent deeps of seas,
Where coral hills are girt around
With fronded forests of no sound,
And fishes slide from tree to tree.

– Raynor D. Chapman (1944)