In the seventeenth century, it was fashionable in the Netherlands to take a trip to Italy. For many painters, the Italian landscape was a predominant theme in their work. The canvases of these ‘Italianate landscape painters’, or ‘Italianates’, were largely fictive, and tended to be bathed in an atmospheric southern light. In this context, the painting exhibited here is not to be regarded as a rare animal study by Berchem, as it was until very recently. In reality, Animals is a fragment from a larger work. The ox to the right has been cut in two, quite literally, which disrupts the harmony of the overall composition.
| Artist |
Nicolaes Berchem
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| Title | Animal Study |
| Date | ca. 1645 |
| Period | 17th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) bottom left: NBerghem fecc. |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1898-A |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Nijpels, Maurice Ghent 1898 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1898-A |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/292/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300263554
animal paintings
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300015636 landscapes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
21D
water (one of the four elements)
Iconclass
25F animals Iconclass 25F1 groups of animals Iconclass 25F2 mammals Iconclass 25F21 groups of mammals Iconclass 25F24 hoofed animals Iconclass 25H1 landscapes in the temperate zone Iconclass 25H2 landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone) Iconclass 47I21 cattle Iconclass 47I21111 ox Iconclass 47I2112 cow Iconclass 47I214 goat Iconclass |
| School / Style | Baroque AAT |
| Catalogue du musée de peinture de la ville de Gand, 1900 / Louis Maeterlinck. - Gand : Imprimerie Victor Van Doosselaere, 1900 (nr. 42) |
| Etudes d'animaux, par Nicolas Berchem / Armand Heins. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (nr. 263) |
| Museum van Schoone Kunsten : Catalogus ; Oude Meesters, Schilderstukken, teekeningen, plaatsneden (met geschiedkundig overzicht) / Maurice Dupuis, Georges Charles Nicolas Marie Hulin de Loo, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Drukkerij F. De Vos, 1938 ; Gent : Stad Gent, 1938 (p. 25) |
| Guide du Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, Orné de 52 reproductions de tableaux : Extrait du guide illustré de Gand / Jos. Casier. - Gand : Anc. Maison d'édition Vanderpoorten, 1949 (p. 25) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Robert Hoozee. - Brussel : Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, 1988 (p. 63) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent = Museum of Fine Arts Ghent / Claudie De Guillebon, Jacques Ostier, Robert Hoozee, Monique Tahon-Vanroose. - Parijs : Association des Amis de "Musées 2000", 1989 (p. 64 (ill. 132)) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. I, p. 39 (ill), 53 (ill.)) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021 |
| Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021 |
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