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| 1658 Self-Portrait red chalk on paper 30.4 x 23 cm © The British Museum, London |
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 4 of a 5-part series on the works of Karel Dujardin:
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| n.d. A man on a horse pulling a donkey across a stream oil on canvas 31.8 x 33.5 cm |
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| n.d. A meadow bounded by a grove of trees (attributed to Dujardin) back chalk with grey wash 15.3 x 20.4 cm © The British Museum, London |
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| n.d. A shepherd with his flock near a tree (attributed to Dujardin) black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash 18 x 13.7 cm |
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| n.d. A Smith shoeing an Ox oil on canvas 38 x 43 cm Dulwich College, London |
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| n.d. A white horse, a cow and a donkey in a landscape oil on panel 20.6 x 24.8 cm |
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| n.d. A young Shepherd asleep oil on oak panel 17.8 x 22.5 cm |
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| n.d. An Italianate river landscape (attributed to Dujardin) black chalk, grey wash, brown ink 17.8 x 28.6 cm |
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| n.d. Bearded Man shown in half-length etching on paper 6.1 x 5.3 cm (plate) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| n.d. Cain and Abel (attributed to Dujardin) oil on copper 34.6 x 29.1 cm |
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| n.d. Cattle and Shepherds in a Southern Mountainous Landscape graphite, brown wash, over red chalk 14.5 x 18.5 cm (sheet) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| n.d. Cattle in a Meadow black chalk, touched with grey wash 19.4 x 22.5 cm © The British Museum, London |
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| n.d. Cattle in a Meadow black chalk, touched with grey wash 19.4 x 22.5 cm © The British Museum, London |
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| n.d. Child near a goat and a lying sheep grey wash; black chalk: metal point on paper 19 x 17 cm Louvre, Paris © Louvre Museum, dist. RMN-Grand Palais |
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| n.d. Cow art brush and grey ink, with wash, over traces of graphite, on cream laid paper 11.4 x 16 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| n.d. Dutch landscape in the dunes black chalk on paper 18.3 x 28.7 cm © The British Museum, London |
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| n.d. Ecce Homo (attributed to Dujardin) oil on canvas 106.7 x 81.3 cm |
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| n.d. Extensive landscape (attributed to Dujardin) brush drawing in grey wash, over black chalk, on two sheets 15.1 x 38.6 cm © The British Museum, London |
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| n.d. Extensive landscape detail of the above (attributed to Dujardin) brush drawing in grey wash, over black chalk, on two sheets © The British Museum, London |
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| n.d. Extensive landscape detail of the above (attributed to Dujardin) brush drawing in grey wash, over black chalk, on two sheets © The British Museum, London |
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| n.d. Four Goats etching on paper 13 x 16.2 cm (sheet) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| n.d. Head and shoulders of a calf black chalk on paper 5.9 x 5.8 cm © The British Museum, London |
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| n.d. Italian landscape black chalk and grey wash on paper 15.2 x 23.1 cm © The British Museum, London |
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| n.d. Italian Landscape with Herdsman and a Piebald Horse oil on wood panel 32 x 27 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris © Louvre Museum, dist. RMN-Grand Palais |
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| n.d. Italian landscape with herdsmen and animals by a stream brush and grey wash, over indications in black chalk 17.2 x 26.5 cm |
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| n.d. Italian Landscape with Horseman and Beggar oil on canvas 64 x 58 cm Louvre, Paris © Louvre Museum, dist. RMN-Grand Palais |
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| n.d. Italianate landscape with an elegant company and a lime kiln oil on canvas 65.4 x 81 cm |
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| n.d. Italianate Landscape with Herders and Animals resting by a River oil on canvas 76.5 x 104.8 cm |
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| n.d. Landscape flanked by Trees etching on paper 4.7 x 5.8 cm (plate) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| n.d. Landscape in the Roman Campagna oil on canvas 85 x 107 cm Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium |
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| n.d. Landscape in the Roman Campagna with Cattle and Shepherds oil on canvas 49.5 x 57.2 cm |
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| n.d. Landscape oil on wood panel 44.7 x 8.3 cm Louvre, Paris © Louvre Museum, dist. RMN-Grand Palais |
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| n.d. Landscape with a flock of sheep and a goat black chalk 14 x 14.6 cm © The British Museum, London |
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| n.d. Landscape with a Shepherdess oil on panel 32 x 40 cm Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague |
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| n.d. Landscape with Corner of Building and Awning etching on paper 4.6 x 5.9 cm (plate) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| n.d. Landscape with two horned Goats in Shadow etching on paper 4.6 x 5.7 cm (plate) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| n.d. Nanny Goat and her Young in an Italianate Landscape (attributed to Dujardin) oil on canvas laid down on panel 30.2 x 22.2 cm |
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