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| 1787-1842 Portrait of Karel Dujardin, after Karel Dujardin etching 40.6 x 31 cm |
Best known as a painter, draughtsman and etcher of Italianate landscapes during Holland’s Golden Age, Karel Dujardin was a versatile artist whose subject matter included portraits, history scenes, genre scenes, Dutch landscapes and pastoral scenes featuring cattle and other livestock. Baptized in 1626 in Amsterdam, his father was a tradesman. Little is known about his artistic training; his Italianate works have led some writers to speculate that Dujardin travelled to Italy in the 1640s, but no documentation of such a trip has been found.
He probably travelled to Paris in 1650, and apparently met his wife, of Flemish descent, in Lyon. By 1652 he and his wife were living in Amsterdam. Some of his pastoral scenes from the 1650s are set in the Dutch countryside, showing the influence of Paulus Potter (1625-1654). Other works from this period are set in Italianate landscapes, often with peasant genre scenes in the foreground, a motif popularised by Pieter van Laer (1599-ca.1642, known as Il Bamboccio while in Rome), who had returned to Haarlem from Rome by 1638. Dujardin began etching in the 1650s, primarily landscapes and animals; about fifty etchings have been attributed to him. By 1656 he had moved to The Hague, where he was a member of a group of artists known as De Pictura,
By 1659 Dujardin was living in Amsterdam, where he stayed for the next fifteen years. During this time he executed portraits, religions scenes, allegories and large history paintings in addition to Italianate landscapes. In 1672 he authenticated paintings in a legal proceeding for the father of his friend Joan Reynst, and in 1675 traveled south as far as Tangiers. Dujardin continued to Rome; one of his signed and dated paintings recites it was made in Rome in 1675. He painted in Rome for the three years; his last dated painting is from 1678. He may have been a member of Schildersbent (“band of painters,” also known as the “Bentvueghels” or “birds of a flock”), a society of Dutch and Flemish painters in Rome active from around 1620 until 1720. He was in Venice when he died in 1678. He had achieved prosperity during his life, living in a house on the upscale Herengracht in Amsterdam; the inventory of his goods after his death attested to his affluence.
This is part 2 of a 5-part series on the works of Karel Dujardin:
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| 1653 The Donkey between two Sheep etching on paper 18/8 x 22.1 cm (sheet) Louvre, Paris © Louvre Museum, dist. RMN-Grand Palais |
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| 1653 The Mule with Bells etching on paper 20.7 x 17.3 cm Louvre, Paris © Louvre Museum, dist. RMN-Grand Palais |
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| 1655 A Sheep Resting etching on paper 7.4 x 9.7 cm (plate) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1655 Lyon Cathedral (attributed to Dujardin) brush in grey and blue, with black chalk 29.5 x 21.8 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| 1655 Sheep and Goats etching on laid paper 19.4 x 21.9 cm (plate) Detroit Institute of Arts, MI |
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| 1655 The Cow and the Calf etching on paper 15.1 x 13.5 cm (plate) National Galleries Scotland, UK |
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| 1655 The Man with the Dog etching on paper 14.1 x 17.8 cm (plate) National Galleries Scotland, UK |
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| 1655 The Sheep and the Flies etching on paper 7.4 x 9.7 cm (plate) National Galleries Scotland, UK |
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| 1655 Two Bulls etching on paper 12.7 x 18.2 cm (plate) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1655 Two Goats and Three Sheep etching o paper 19.5 x 21.8 cm (plate) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1655 Two Oxen etching on paper 15.5 x 18.2 cm (sheet) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1655-59 Woman Milking a Red Cow oil on canvas 66 x 59 cm Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
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| c1655 A sheep lying with its legs folded underneath its body etching on paper 7.6 x 10.4 cm (sheet) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| c1655 Sheep and Lamb etching on paper 7.5 x 9.8 cm (plate) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| c1655 Two Sheep etching on paper 7.6 xx 10 cm (sheet) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1656 A Landscape with Cattle oil on panel 30 x 34.3 cm |
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| 1656 Farm Animals in the Shade of a Tree, with a Boy and a Sleeping Herdswoman oil on canvas 34.6 x 39.7 cm The National Gallery, London |
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| 1656 Landscape with Two Muleteers etching on laid paper 14 x 17.7 cm (plate) |
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| 1656 The Bocage. Cows, Donkey, and Sheep near a Stream oil on canvas 52 x 43 cm Louvre, Paris © Louvre Museum, dist. RMN-Grand Palais |
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| 1656 The Shepherd behind the Tree etching on paper 13 x 18.3 cm (plate) |
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| 1656 Two Swine etching on paper 12 x 15.1 cm (plate) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1656-59 An Ox and an Ass etching on paper 13.9 x 19.1 cm (plate) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1656-59 Three Swine near a Wicker Fence etching on paper 11.9 x 15.1 cm (sheet) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1657 A Woman and a Boy with Animals at a Ford oil on canvas 37.7 x 43.5 cm The National Gallery, London |
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| 1657 Grazing horses, cows and sheep in a meadow oil on canvas 51.5 x 46.7 cm Louvre, Paris © Louvre Museum, dist. RMN-Grand Palais |
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| 1657 The Italian Charlatans oil on canvas 45 x 52 cm Louvre, Paris © Louvre Museum, dist. RMN-Grand Palais |
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| 1657 Two Horses by a Plough etching on paper 15.5 x 18.4 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| c1657-60 Crossing the Brook oil on canvas Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| c1657 Seated Man removing his Boots red chalk [moistened?] on cream antique laid paper 15.2 x 12.4 cm (image) Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College |
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| 1658 A Savoyard with a Dancing Dog etching on paper 16.5 x 11.9 cm (plate) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1658 A village situated on a hill etching on paper 11.9 x 15.5 cm (sheet) © The British Museum, London |
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| 1658 A Walled Village at the Top of a Hill (different impression of the print above) etching on paper 12.3 x 15.4 cm (plate) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1658 Cowherd with Cow and Calf on a Hillside etching on paper 20.5 x 17.3 cm (sheet) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1658 Four Sheep etching on paper 12.4 x 15.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1658 Ideal Landscape with the Ruins of a Temple etching on paper 12.5 x 15.8 cm (plate) Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1658 Landscape with Ruins and a Man tying his Shoelace etching on paper 12.3 x 15.7 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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