Sunday, January 21, 2018

Scenes and Subjects Painted on Copper (Rijksmuseum)

circle of Pellegrino Tibaldi
Venus and Minerva
ca. 1590-1620
oil on copper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Hans Rottenhammer
Venus and Mars
1604
oil on copper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

from A SONG

How blest are lovers in disguise!
    Like gods they see,
    As I do thee,
Unseen by human eyes.
    Exposed to view,
    I'm hid from you;
I'm altered, yet the same;
    The dark conceals me,
    Love reveals me –
Love which lights me by its flame.

– George Farquhar (1699)

Hans Rottenhammer
Virgin and Child with St John the Baptist and St Catherine
1604
oil on copper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

follower of Jan Brueghel the Elder
Landscape with Rest on the Flight into Egypt
ca. 1600-1700
oil on copper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Hendrik de Clerck
Contest between Apollo and Pan
ca. 1600-1629
oil on copper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

from A SONG FOR ST. CECILIA'S DAY

What passion cannot MUSIC raise and quell!
        When Jubal struck the corded shell,
    His listening brethren stood around,
        And wondering, on their faces fell,
    To worship that celestial sound.
Less than a god they thought there could not dwell
        Within the hollow of that shell
        That spoke so sweetly and so well.
What passion cannot MUSIC raise and quell!

– John Dryden (1687)

Philips Wouwerman
Stag Hunt
ca. 1650-68
oil on copper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Philips Wouwerman
Heron Hunt
ca. 1650-68
oil on copper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Jan Davidsz de Heem
Flowers in a Glass Vase
ca. 1650-83
oil on copper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

from SIGNS OF SPRING

The almond flourisheth, the birch trees flow,
The sad mezereon cheerfully doth blow.
The flowery sons before their fathers seen,
The snails begin to crop the mandrake green.
The vernal sun with crocus gardens fills,
With hyacinths, anemones and daffodils:
The hazel catkins now dilate and fall,
And paronychions peep upon each wall.

– Sir Thomas Browne (ca. 1650)

Karl Dujardin
Muleteers at an Italian Inn
ca. 1658-60
oil on copper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Pieter Cornelisz van Slingelandt
Portrait of a man and a woman
ca. 1678-1705
oil on copper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Herman Saftleven
Mountainous Landscape near Boppard aan de Rijn
1660
oil on copper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

from A LANDSCAPE

Standing upon a hill of fancies high,
Viewing about with curiosity's eye
Saw several landscapes under my thoughts to lie.
 
     Woods did present my view on the left side,
Where trees of high ambition grew great pride.
There shades of envy were made of dark spite,
Which did eclipse the fame of honour's light.
Faults stood so close, not many beams of praise
Could enter in: spite stopped up all the ways.
But leaves of prattling tongues, which ne'er lie still,
Sometimes speak truth, although most lies they tell.

– Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1653)

Gerard Hoet
Portrait of Willem Hadriaan van Nassau with wife and children
ca. 1671-76
oil on copper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Thomas de Keyser
Portrait of Pieter Schout on horseback
1660
oil on copper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Willem de Heusch
Italian Landscape with Herdsman
before 1692
oil on copper
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam