Friday, December 10, 2021

Seventeenth-Century Dutch Paintings (Five Genres)

Jan Jansz Treck
Still Life with Pewter Flagon and two Ming Bowls
1651
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Pieter Claesz
Vanitas Still Life
1625
oil on panel
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

Gerrit van Honthorst
Wedding Banquet
ca. 1613-14
oil on canvas
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Gerrit van Honthorst
Musical Banquet
ca. 1619-20
oil on canvas
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Cornelis de Man
Game of Cards with Woman reflected in a Mirror
ca. 1670
oil on panel
National Trust, Polesden Lacey, Surrey

Esaias van de Velde
Banquet in a Garden
1619
oil on panel
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

Adriaen van Ostade
Fishwife
1672
oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jan van Goyen
A Calm
ca. 1646-50
oil on panel
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Dirck van der Lisse 
River Landscape with Bathing Figures
before 1669
oil on panel
private collection

Philips Wouwerman
Camp Scene with Trumpeter and Farrier's Booth
ca. 1665
oil on canvas
Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London

Bartholomeus van Bassen
Nieuwe Kerk aan het Spui, The Hague 
1650
oil on panel
The Hague Historic Museum

Herman Verelst
Young Man of the Dashwood Family
ca. 1683
oil on canvas
Guildhall Art Gallery, London

Werner van den Valckert
Young Woman with Pancakes
1624
oil on canvas
private collection

Werner van den Valckert
The Emperor Caligula
1621
oil on canvas
Schloss Caputh, Schwielowsee

Pieter de Grebber
The Lamentation
1640
oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

from The End of Science Fiction

The genre is dead. Invent something new. 
Invent a man and a woman
naked in a garden,
invent a child that will save the world,
a man who carries his father
out of a burning city.
Invent a spool of thread
that leads a hero to safety,
invent an island on which he abandons
the woman who saved his life
with no loss of sleep over his betrayal.

– Lisel Mueller (1996)