Friday 29 April 2022

Adriaen van Utrecht - part 1

Portrait of Adriaen van Utrecht 1649
engraving by Joannes Meyssens (1612-1670)
Rijksmusem, Amsterdam

Adriaen van Utrecht (Antwerp 1599 – 1652) was a Flemish painter known mainly for his sumptuous banquet still lifes, game and fruit still lifes, fruitgarlands, market and kitchen scenes and depictions of live poultry in farmyards. His paintings, especially the hunting and game pieces, show the influence of Frans Snyders. The two artists are considered the main inventors of the genre of the pronkstillevens, i.e. still lifes that emphasised abundance by depicting a diversity of objects, fruits, flowers and dead game, often together with living people and animals. Van Utrecht also painted a number of flower still lifes. He was a regular collaborator with leading Antwerp painters who had been pupils or assistants of Peter Paul Rubens, such as Jacob Jordaens, David Teniers the Younger, Erasmus Quellinus II, Gerard Seghers, Theodoor Rombouts, Abraham van Diepenbeeck and Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert.

This is part 1 of 2 on the works of Adriaen van Utrecht:

1620s Still Life
oil on canvas 67 x 86 cm
Private Collection

1620s Still Life
detail of the above

1630-40 A lady at the fish market in Antwerp
oil on canvas

1630-40 A lady at the fish market in Antwerp
detail of the above

1630s Kitchen
collaboration with Theodoor Rombouts (1597-1637)
oil on canvas 153.5 x 197.5 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

1630s Kitchen
detail of the above

c1635 A Basket of fruit on a draped table
oil on canvas
Private Collection

1636 Still Life with Fruit and a Monkey eating Grapes 

A very similar composition painted eight years later:


1642 Grapes, apples, plums, figs and other fruit on a partly draped wooden table, a monkey eating walnuts by an upturned woven basket
oil on panel 81.5 x 116.5 cm


1642 Grapes, apples, plums, figs and other fruit etc.
detail of the above

1636 Still life with parrot or Allegory of Fire
oil on canvas 117 x 154 cm
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels 

1636 Still life with parrot or Allegory of Fire
detail of the above

1638 Festoon of Fruits and Vegetables 
oil on canvas 186 x 60 cm
Image copyright ©National Prado Museum

1640 Fishmonger's Stall
oil on canvas 215.5 x 300.5 cm
Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, Belgium

c1640-59 Peacock and farmyard birds
oil on canvas 176 x 218 cm
Louvre, Paris

1640s Garland of Fruit and Vegetables
oil on canvas 57 x 84 cm
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

1640s Still Life with Grapes
oil on canvas 119 x 99 cm
 The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

1640s Still life with vegetables
oil on canvas 74.4 x 118 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

1641 Still life with fruit piled high in a basket, surrounded by quinces, melons and asparagus on a ledge
 oil on canvas 67.3 x 86.4 cm

1641 Still-Life
oil on canvas 76 x 119 cm
Private Collection

1642 A Pantry
oil on canvas 221 x 307 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

c1642 Still Life with Bouquet and Skull
oil on canvas 67 x 86 cm
Private Collection

1644 Banquet still life
oil on canvas 186 x 243 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

1644 Banquet still life
detail of the above 1

1644 Banquet still life
detail of the above 2

1644 Fruit Hangers
oil on oak panel 138.4 x 99.7 cm
(Centre designed for a mirror)
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna

1645 A Barn interior with a Turkey
oil on canvas 125 x 175 cm

1646 Turkeys and Chickens
oil on canvas 121 x 170.2 cm

1646-49 Still-Life with hare and birds on a ring
oil on canvas 86 x 117 cm
Gemäldegalerie, Dresden, Germany

1647 A Still Life With Grapes, Figs, Apples, Oranges, Apricots, Lemons, A Melon, Loganberries, an Open Pomegranate And Cherries
oil on canvas


Wednesday 27 April 2022

Roger Duvoisin - part 11

 Roger Duvoisin (1904–1980) was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and in 1927, moved to New York for a job in textile design. When the company folded, he decided to publish a book he’d written and illustrated for his son. A Little Boy Drawing (Charles Scribner’s Sons) was released in 1932, and he followed it with Donkey, Donkey, which firmly established his career in children’s books—and is still in print, now from NYR Children’s Collection.

Roger’s signature style was colourful, bold, and graphic, and he had a strong sense of composition and design. He incorporated both humour and drama into the lines of his art and delivered compassion without being sentimental. Over the years, he wrote and illustrated over forty books, including series that featured Petunia the silly goose and Veronica the conspicuous hippo, folktales such as the Three Sneezes and The Crocodile in the Tree, and concept books such as A for the Ark.

Roger also created pictures for over 140 books by other authors. Among them were the popular Happy Lion books written by his wife, Louise Fatio, and nineteen books by Alvin R. Tresselt, including White Snow, Bright Snow, which was awarded a Caldecott Medaland Hide and Seek Fog, which was named a Caldecott Honour Book. Four of his titles were New York Times Best Illustrated Books, and in 1976, he received the Kerlan Award for Children’s Literature. His work is on display in the Duvoisin Gallery at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers, in New Brunswick, NJ.

For earlier works see parts 1 - 10 also. This is part 11 of an 11 part series on the works of Roger Duvoisin:

1976 What Ever Happened to the Baxter Place? by Pat Ross
published by Pantheon Books

1976 Which is the Best Place? by Mirra Ginsburg
published by MacMillan

1977 Crocus by Roger Duvoisin
published by The Bodley Head

1977 Hector and Christina by Louise Fatio
published by McGraw-Hill, Ohio

n.d. Old Mother Hubbard's Little Dog
pin the pipe on the dog game

1973 Jasmine by Roger Duvoisin, published by Alfred A. Knopf:









1974 See What I Am by Roger Duvoisin, published by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard:



1974 The Happy Lion's Rabbits by Louise Fatio, published by The Bodley Head (Front cover not found):








1975 Marc and Pixie by Louise Fatio, published by McGraw-Hill:




1975 Petunia's Treasure by Roger Duvoisin:








1976 Periwinkle by Roger Duvoisin, published by by Alfred A. Knopf:




 
1978 Mr. and Mrs. Button's Wonderful Watchdogs by Janice Brustlein:



1978 What Did You Leave Behind? by Alvin Tresselt:



Original artwork for the above
gouache (on paper) Zimmerli Art Museum



1979 Snowy and Woody by Roger Duvoisin, published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York:







1980 The Happy Lioness by Louise Fatio, published by McGraw-Hill:





1980 The Importance of Crocus by Roger Duvoisin, published by Alfred A. Knopf: