Friday, May 5, 2017

Northern European Paintings on Copper Surfaces I

Frans van Mieris
Pictura (Allegory of Painting)
1659-60
oil on copper
Getty Museum, Los Angeles

circle of Frans Hals
Portrait of a man with a lute
1630s
oil on silvered copper
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

Balthasar Denner
Portrait of an old woman
ca. 1720-40
oil on copper
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Sketch in October

The tugboat is freckled with rust.  What is it doing so far inland?
It's a heavy burnt-out lamp, tipped over in the cold.
But the trees still carry colors  wild signals to the other shore as if
someone wanted to be fetched home.

On the way back, I see mushrooms pushing up through the grass.
Stretching for help, these white fingers
belong to someone who sobs down there in the darkness.
We belong to the earth.

 by Tomas Tranströmer (1931-2015), translated from Swedish by Robin Robertson

Jan Verkolje
Portrait of Johanna Anthonetta Blonk
1693
oil on copper
private collection

Jan Verkolje
Portrait of Abraham van Bleyswijck-Guilliaamszn.
1693
oil on copper
private collection

Anonymous Dutch painter
St Catherine
18th century
oil on copper
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Cornelis de Baellieur
Madonna and Child Enthroned
before 1671
oil on copper
private collection

Adam Elsheimer
Jacob's Dream
before 1610
oil on copper
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt

Antoine Le Nain
The young musicians
ca. 1640
oil on copper
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Sébastien Bourdon
The Smoker
ca. 1637-40
oil on copper
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

Nicolas Lancret
Nicaise : a fable of La Fontaine
1738
oil on copper
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Nicolas Lancret
Two Friends : a fable of La Fontaine
1738
oil on copper
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Jean-Baptiste Lallemand
View of the Roman Forum
1750s
oil on copper
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Willem van Nieulandt the Younger
View of the Roman Forum 
before 1635
oil on copper
private collection