Friday, December 3, 2021

Eighteenth-Century Painters from the Low Countries

Cornelis Joseph d'Heur
The Teaching of Perspective
1761
oil on panel
Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

Balthasar van den Bossche
Nobleman's Picture Gallery
ca. 1700-1715
oil on canvas
private collection

Balthasar van den Bossche
Sculptor's Studio
before 1715
oil on canvas
private collection

Balthasar van den Bossche
Studio of an Artist
1709
oil on canvas
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Balthasar van den Bossche
Visit to a Sculptor's Studio
1704
oil on canvas
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Andries Cornelis Lens
Offering to Bacchus
ca. 1790
oil on canvas
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Hendrik van Limborch
Putti at Play
ca. 1700-1720
oil on panel
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Hendrik van Limborch
Self Portrait
1708
oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Nicolaes van Haeften
Portrait of a Family in an Interior
ca. 1700
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Hendrik Jan van Amerom
Interior with seated Woman sewing,
Boy playing, and standing Housemaid

1797
watercolor on paper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Hieronymus van der Mij
Portrait of David van Royen
1735
oil on panel
Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden

Hieronymus van der Mij
Portrait of a Gentleman
ca. 1715-30
oil on panel
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Hieronymus van der Mij
Portrait of Theodoor van Snakenburg
1743
oil on copper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Hieronymus van der Mij
Portrait of Adriaan van Royen
1736
oil on panel
Universiteitbibliotheek, Leiden

Hendrik Frans van Lint
Classical Italian Landscape
ca. 1740
oil on canvas
Guildhall Museum, Rochester, Kent

Hendrik van Limborch
Achilles discovered among the Daughters of Lycomedes
1710
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Classical Quatrain

For rage and dignity no words compare
wi' the Atlantic Ocean lashed by winds;
gestures of love of juveniles are sweeter
than any words of mine. But for alcaic

rapidity and a pat surprise i' the end
you must read Horace: oh, the fertile fields
and the repetitive factories produce,
tho many other things, no metaphors. 

Many a labor is heavier to do
and profit by than stanzas, but these are
within my skill: shall I ungratefully
my gift of formal speech disdain?

By formal speech Sheharazad a thousand
midnights prone violence appeased,
the homicidal hurry i' the soul
embarrassed into an uncertain smile.

– Paul Goodman (1949)