Jacob van Ochtervelt ( Dutch: Jacob van Ochtervelt / Jakob Ugtervelt / Jacob Ochterveld / Jacob Lucasz Ochtervelt ; 1634 , Rotterdam - May 1, 1682 , Amsterdam ) - Dutch artist - genre writer of the second half of the 17th century . Years of the artist's work coincided with the sunset of the Golden Age of Dutch painting .
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 Street musicians at the door of a wealthy house. 1665. Art Museum of St. Louis , Missouri | |
| Birth name | Jacob Lucaszoon Ochtervelt |
| Date of Birth | 1634 |
| Place of Birth | Rotterdam |
| Date of death | May 1, 1682 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam |
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| Genre | Genre painting |
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Biography
Jacob van Ochtervelt was a student of the Harlem painter Nicholas (Klas) Berham, 1620–1683 [2] , who specialized in Italian and Dutch landscapes with shepherds and horsemen, with figures of people and animals from the mythological repertoire. Also, Van Ochtervelt took instructions from his peer, Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635–1681), with whom Van Ogtervelt was related by a passion for interior scenes and some schematism, “puppetry” in the depiction of the heads and hands of characters.
Upon his return to Rotterdam (1655–1672), he works under the direction of the English. Ludolph de Jong (1616–1679), masters of secular portraits and hunting scenes.
After the French invasion of 1672 , Van Ochtervelt left Rotterdam , and from 1674 until the last year of his life ( 1682 ) lives and works in Amsterdam .
Creativity
Ochtervelt's favorite motif of interior paintings is a meeting on the doorstep of the owners' house with various visitors: with distributors of goods (“Buying Fish”, c. 1680, Pushkin Museum [3] ); with street musicians (Street Musicians (Minstrels), 1682 oil on canvas, 75 × 60 cm; Rijksmuseum , Amsterdam ). In genre interior compositions, the master uses a winning contrast between the figures participating in the “ensemble”. On the one hand, these are visitors lit from the back by the rays of light pouring from a doorway. They are outlined in silhouette (often their faces are shaded). On the other hand, the inhabitants of the house softly, voluminously fashioned with frontal light. The scenes were transmitted with live participation and with a certain amount of psychological amusement. Although, Van Ochtervelt is somewhat inferior in the jewelry of the drawing and the filigree finish of the painted surface to the luminaries of the genre - Gerard Terborch or Gabriel Metsu .
Gallery
Music lesson, approx. 1667. Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, Mannheim
The purchase of grapes, 1669 [4] . The Hermitage , St. Petersburg
Lemon slice, approx. 1667
Home concert, approx. 1670
Home Concert (detail) Cleveland , Ohio Museum of Art
Family Portrait, 1670, Museum of Art , Budapest
Repetition. , Kassel
Love in addition to reading, approx. 1680 Kunsthalle (Karlsruhe)
Literature
- Holland. XVII — XVIII centuries // State Museum of Fine Arts named after A. S. Pushkin. Catalog of painting / Ed. I.E. Danilova . - Moscow, Milan: Mazzotta, 1995 .-- S. 529. - 775 p. - ISBN 8820211637 .
- Kuretsky, Susan Donahue. The Paintings of Jacob Ochtervelt (1634 - 1682). [With Catalog Raisonné .]. - Montclair, NJ: Allanheld & Schram, 1979.- 245 p. - ISBN 0839002408 .
- Chong, Alan. Jacob Ochtervelt's Rotterdam patron // In his milieu: Essays on Netherlandish Art / A. Golahny, MM Mochizuki, L. Vergara. - Amsterdam University Press, 2006 .-- P. 101-122. - 640 p. - ISBN 9053569332 .
- Norbert Schneider. Schwellenängste: zu einem Vestibül-Bild Jacob Ochtervelts (German) // Kritische Berichte. - Ulmer Verein, 1999 .-- Vol. 27, Nr. 4 . - S. 37-48 . - ISSN 0340-7403 .
- Kuretsky, Susan Donahue. The Ochtervelt documents (English) // Oud-Holland. - 1973. - Vol. 87. - P. 124-134 . - ISSN 0030-672X .
Notes
- ↑ artist list of the National Museum of Sweden - 2016.
- ↑ Another (better known) Dutch genre writer, Peter de Hoch, took lessons at Burham’s workshop in the same years as Van Ochtervelt.
- ↑ Painting "Buying Fish", approx. 1680 oil on canvas 74 × 83 cm, Pushkin Museum , Moscow, in 1924 entered the Moscow collection from the Hermitage
- ↑ The fate of the painting “Buying Grapes” is symbolic. When at the beginning of the 18th century the tsarist emissaries Yuri Kologrivov and Osip Solovyov bought 280 paintings in The Hague, Amsterdam, Brussels and Antwerp for the Monplaisir Palace in Peterhof . Among them - along with the mentioned genre thing by Jacob Ochtervelt and Jan Steen , and Simon de Flieger , and Jan Feit , and - the first of Rembrandt's works in Russia, the painting ( 1642) .