Frederik Hendrik’s Siege of ’s-Hertogenbosch, 1629, Pieter de Neyn (attributed to), c. 1629 - c. 1639 – (Pieter De Neyn) ◄ Předchozí Další ►

Artist: Pieter De Neyn

Datum: 1639

Velikost: 68 x 114 cm

Technika: Oil On Canvas

’s-Hertogenbosch took the side of the Spanish during the Eighty Years’ War. Prince Maurits unsuccessfully attempted to capture the town a number of times, but it was his successor, Frederik Hendrik who finally took it in 1629. The present painting shows the town from the south, with the St Janskathedraal prominently in the centre of the composition on the horizon. The real subject of the painting is the rebels’ army camp. The pikes are neatly lined up along a wooden rail, and the defences on the mound are being reinforced. In the left foreground two men are busy bundling wicker, while a third man drags a bundle towards the mound. Wicker was used to construct both the barricades themselves and bottomless baskets that were filled with earth in which stakes were anchored.2 The landscape and figure style warrant the attribution to Pieter de Neyn, who often employed a dark diagonal band in the foreground followed by one of intense light. The impasto rendering of the highlights is also in keeping with his work. These aspects, as well as the low horizon and the impressive handling of the stormy sky, can be compared with De Neyn’s signed View of Rhenen from 1632, although the latter painting is significantly smaller and on panel.3 Jonathan Bikker, 2007 See Bibliography and Rijksmuseum painting catalogues See Key to abbreviations and Acknowledgements This entry was published in J. Bikker (ed.), Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, I: Artists Born between 1570 and 1600, coll. cat. Amsterdam 2007, no. 223.