Artist: Gerard Van Der Horst
Treffi: 1650
koko: 85 x 162 cm
Tekniikka: Oil On Panel
Like several other harpsichord lids in the Rijksmuseum’s collection, this one dates from the first half of the 17th century.3 The subject of a dismounted horseman urinating in a landscape with a dilapidated tower is not the most obvious one for decorating a musical instrument. Landscapes were quite often painted on harpsichords, but usually they contain allusions to music, even if only in the form of a huntsman with a horn.4 The lid is listed as a work from the circle of Jan van de Velde II in the museum’s 1976 catalogue.5 The coarse execution has little to do with Van de Velde, but the composition does turn out to be derived from an example from his workshop. The large landscape was taken integrally from a print in a five-part suite that Van de Velde made after designs by Gerard van der Horst.6 The composition is reversed relative to the print, and since there are no known copies of the entire scene,7 the anonymous painter either used Van der Horst’s original drawings or, and this is more likely, reversed the scene to make it fit the shape of the lid of the harpsichord. There is no connection between the landscape on the small panel and the print series after Van der Horst, but it too is probably based on a print. The suite after designs by Van der Horst was published in a second state by Claes Jansz Visscher in 1628. The lid of the harpsichord would have been painted in the second quarter of the 17th century. It is not clear whether that was done in the southern Netherlands, where there was a flourishing tradition of harpsichord building, or in the northern Netherlands.8 Gerdien Wuestman, 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. 151.
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