Aelbert Cuyp - Часть 1
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kaveryAelbert Cuyp
born 1620 - died 1691
Недавно мне попалась вот эта картина . Художник меня заинтересовал и оказалось, что у него достаточно богатое наследие.
Мне больше всего понравились его картины с животными. В первой подборке я собрала картины со всадниками. Хотя тут есть и не только лошади, а и другие животные. Любителям собак , например, тут тоже есть на что посмотреть. (картины можно открыть и рассмотреть подробнее)
Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman (Starting for the Hunt)
Porträt des Pieter de Roovere
Landscape with Horse Trainers
The Avenue at Meerdervoort
Landscape with a Hunt
The Negro Page
Grey Horse in a Landscape
Lady and Gentleman on Horseback
А сколько тут зверюшек!!!! На любой вкус.
Orpheus with Animals in a Landscape
Статья о художнике: (взята тут)
by Anne Versloot
10-07-2002
He's famous the world over now, but during his lifetime the painter Aelbert Cuyp (1620 – 1691) barely had any renown outside his hometown Dordrecht. All his patrons were from that same town on the Maas River. Local regent families and especially the nouveau riche liked themselves to be depicted on horseback in their most stately costumes. They had their other pride and glory, their red-and-white cattle, immortalized as well, paddling in the Merwede River. It's all on exhibition now, in Amsterdam.
Aelbert Cuyp was brought up on painting. His grandfather Gerrit was a glass painter and his father Jacob was a popular portrait painter in Dordrecht, who was training a whole generation of artists from his town. As an apprentice already in his father's studio the young Aelbert specialised in landscape painting.
Dutch Thunder and Lighting
All of his life Aelbert Cuyp lived in Dordrecht. The town had everything: the Grote Kerk (Grand Church), the water with the sailing ships and timber rafts. That's what he most liked to draw and paint when he was young. He made beautiful sketches of the Dutch landscape: windswept trees, panoramas of Dordrecht and industrious people on and near the river. He painted in a meticulous and true-to-nature style and with an eye for detail – every leaf of an oak tree is pictured with great precision. And he did not forget the weather either. On one of his riverscapes there is dramatic thunder and lightning.
Life is Good
Later he painted landscapes drenched in sunlight with high hills and hazy vistas. On each and everyone of those paintings Holland exudes the feeling of a peaceful Arcadia, always bathing in the golden glow of early morning or evening light with ruins of monumental buildings, light breezes and cloud formations. Shepherds are herding their sheep that graze contentedly; travellers on horseback are enjoying the views. In short, in the prospering Dutch Republic after the Eighty Years War against Spain life is good.
Placid Cows
Especially the scenes with groups of four or five ruminating cows are splendid. They radiate vigour and health. The cattle, black-red-and-white with a blaze, are paddling ankle-deep in the river, placidly staring or just about to drink. Their backs form one level line parallel to the horizon, making for a harmonious, balanced composition. You could sit and watch these animals for hours, it's not often you find such serene quiet. These are the paintings that made his name after his death. The cow scenes were the showpieces of the new elite in Dordrecht, Aelbert Cuyp's patrons.
Dream World
The nouveau riche not only had their property captured on canvas but themselves as well, in equestrian portraits for instance or in hunting scenes. They are monumental portraits of regent families in an exotic dreamworld. It was the class that Aelbert Cuyp himself belonged to: he later became an elder with the Reformed Church, a regent and a councillor. When he died in 1691 he was one of the wealthiest citizens of Dordrecht.
Hype in Britain
But for a long time after his death his fame did not extend much further than his hometown. That changed in the 18th and 19th century. British collectors suddenly fell in love with Cuyp's work. The beautiful light, but also the subject matter appealed to them: horses and hunting. It was exactly what the British aristocracy liked to se hanging in their salons. By 1800 hardly any of Aelbert Cuyp's paintings were left in The Netherlands
born 1620 - died 1691
Недавно мне попалась вот эта картина . Художник меня заинтересовал и оказалось, что у него достаточно богатое наследие.
Мне больше всего понравились его картины с животными. В первой подборке я собрала картины со всадниками. Хотя тут есть и не только лошади, а и другие животные. Любителям собак , например, тут тоже есть на что посмотреть. (картины можно открыть и рассмотреть подробнее)
Equestrian Portrait of Cornelis (1639–1680) and Michiel Pompe van Meerdervoort (1638–1653) with Their Tutor and Coachman (Starting for the Hunt)
Porträt des Pieter de Roovere
Landscape with Horse Trainers
The Avenue at Meerdervoort
Landscape with a Hunt
The Negro Page
Grey Horse in a Landscape
Lady and Gentleman on Horseback
А сколько тут зверюшек!!!! На любой вкус.
Orpheus with Animals in a Landscape
Статья о художнике: (взята тут)
Cows in Arcadia
by Anne Versloot
10-07-2002
He's famous the world over now, but during his lifetime the painter Aelbert Cuyp (1620 – 1691) barely had any renown outside his hometown Dordrecht. All his patrons were from that same town on the Maas River. Local regent families and especially the nouveau riche liked themselves to be depicted on horseback in their most stately costumes. They had their other pride and glory, their red-and-white cattle, immortalized as well, paddling in the Merwede River. It's all on exhibition now, in Amsterdam.
Aelbert Cuyp was brought up on painting. His grandfather Gerrit was a glass painter and his father Jacob was a popular portrait painter in Dordrecht, who was training a whole generation of artists from his town. As an apprentice already in his father's studio the young Aelbert specialised in landscape painting.
Dutch Thunder and Lighting
All of his life Aelbert Cuyp lived in Dordrecht. The town had everything: the Grote Kerk (Grand Church), the water with the sailing ships and timber rafts. That's what he most liked to draw and paint when he was young. He made beautiful sketches of the Dutch landscape: windswept trees, panoramas of Dordrecht and industrious people on and near the river. He painted in a meticulous and true-to-nature style and with an eye for detail – every leaf of an oak tree is pictured with great precision. And he did not forget the weather either. On one of his riverscapes there is dramatic thunder and lightning.
Life is Good
Later he painted landscapes drenched in sunlight with high hills and hazy vistas. On each and everyone of those paintings Holland exudes the feeling of a peaceful Arcadia, always bathing in the golden glow of early morning or evening light with ruins of monumental buildings, light breezes and cloud formations. Shepherds are herding their sheep that graze contentedly; travellers on horseback are enjoying the views. In short, in the prospering Dutch Republic after the Eighty Years War against Spain life is good.
Placid Cows
Especially the scenes with groups of four or five ruminating cows are splendid. They radiate vigour and health. The cattle, black-red-and-white with a blaze, are paddling ankle-deep in the river, placidly staring or just about to drink. Their backs form one level line parallel to the horizon, making for a harmonious, balanced composition. You could sit and watch these animals for hours, it's not often you find such serene quiet. These are the paintings that made his name after his death. The cow scenes were the showpieces of the new elite in Dordrecht, Aelbert Cuyp's patrons.
Dream World
The nouveau riche not only had their property captured on canvas but themselves as well, in equestrian portraits for instance or in hunting scenes. They are monumental portraits of regent families in an exotic dreamworld. It was the class that Aelbert Cuyp himself belonged to: he later became an elder with the Reformed Church, a regent and a councillor. When he died in 1691 he was one of the wealthiest citizens of Dordrecht.
Hype in Britain
But for a long time after his death his fame did not extend much further than his hometown. That changed in the 18th and 19th century. British collectors suddenly fell in love with Cuyp's work. The beautiful light, but also the subject matter appealed to them: horses and hunting. It was exactly what the British aristocracy liked to se hanging in their salons. By 1800 hardly any of Aelbert Cuyp's paintings were left in The Netherlands
