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Jacob Savery II 1592 Amsterdam - nach 1650 Amsterdam Orpheus unter den Tieren Öl auf Leinwand (doubliert). 50 x 153,5 cm. Provenienz Niederländische Privatsammlung. Die Darstellung des musizierenden Orpheus unter Tieren war bereits in der Antike ein beliebtes Thema. In der flämischen Malerei des späten 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts erlebte dieses Motiv eine erneute Blütezeit, bot es doch den Künstlern die Gelegenheit zur virtuosen Darstellung unterschiedlichster einheimischer und exotischer Tiere. Dass letztere den Künstlern oftmals nur durch Stichpublikationen bekannt gewesen sein dürften, zeigt im vorliegenden Gemälde das Rhinozeros am linken Bildrand, das dem berühmten Dürer-Stich von 1515 entlehnt ist. Fred Meijer vom RKD (Den Haag) hat das Gemälde in einem Schreiben an den Vorbesitzer Jacob Savery II zugeschrieben. Jacob Savery II entstammte einer ursprünglich flämischen Malerfamilie, die um 1580 aus Glaubensgründen in die nördliche Niederlande flüchtete. Sowohl sein Vater Jacob Savery I als auch dessen jüngerer Bruder Roelandt Savery waren bereits für ihre brillanten Tierdarstellungen berühmt und auch der Sohn von Jacob Savery II setzte diese künstlerische Familientradition fort. Jacob Savery II 1592 Amsterdam - after 1650 Amsterdam Orpheus among the Animals Oil on canvas (relined). 50 x 153.5 cm. Provenance Private collection, Netherlands. Even in antiquity, Orpheus playing music among the animals was a popular motif, and it experienced a renewed surge of popularity in the Flemish art of the late 16th and early 17th century. It offered artist's the chance to display their prowess in depicting a large variety of native and exotic animals. Many of the latter were presumably only known to the artists through contemporary engraved publications, as shown by the rhinoceros on the left edge of the image which is obviously based on Dürer's famous woodcut of such a beast from 1515. Fred Meijer of the RKD (The Hague) attributed the work to Jacob Savery II in a letter to the previous owner. This painter was a member of an originally Flemish family of artists who were forced to flee to the northern Netherlands in 1580 due to religious persecution. Both his father Jacob Savery I and his younger brother Roelandt Savery were already famous for their brilliant depictions of animals, and the son Jacob Savery II continued this family tradition.
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05/17/2014
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