Savery was a court painter to Emperor Rudolf II in Prague between approximately 1603 and 1616. It was here that he processed the impressions that he gathered during his visits to the Tyrol and Bohemia. A forested landscape with rocks unfolds beneath a bright blue sky. At the base of the work, the bright red outer garments of the two fishermen immediately catch the eye. One holds a crayfish in his right hand. The human figures are but a tiny detail in the overwhelming, but fictitious, landscape. Savery gives free-reign to his imagination in the rocks on the right hand side, which coalesce into the profile of a man’s face: the deciduous trees form a lush head of hair; a variation in the colour of the rock suggests an eye; a bulge equates to a nose and a fissure to a mouth, while trees give the impression of a goatee beard.
| Artist |
Roelant Savery
RKD
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| Title | Landscape with Crab Fishermen |
| Date | ca. 1608 |
| Period | 17th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) bottom right: R. SAVERY. |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1955-A |
| Acquisition credit |
gift
The Friends of the Museum Ghent 1955 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on loan |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1955-A |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/2391/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300015636
landscapes
AAT
300189808 figures (representations) AAT 300263554 animal paintings AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
22C
light
Iconclass
22C1 natural light Iconclass 22C8 shadow Iconclass 25F716(LOBSTER) crustaceans: lobster Iconclass 25G31 shrubs Iconclass 25H1 landscapes in the temperate zone Iconclass 25H11 mountains Iconclass 25H112 rocks Iconclass 25H153 bush, shrubs ~ forest Iconclass 25H2 landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone) Iconclass 25H213 river Iconclass 25H217 river bank Iconclass 26A clouds Iconclass 300015636 landscapes AAT 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31D14 adult man Iconclass 41A7751 container made of plant material other than wood: basket Iconclass 43C12 fishing (sports) Iconclass 43C128 fisherman Iconclass 47K13 crustacean fishery Iconclass 48A982 anthropomorphic ornament Iconclass |
| School / Style | Mannerist (Renaissance-Baroque style) AAT |
| Zur Werk des Roeland Savery / Heinrich Gerhard Franz. - [s.l.]. - [s.n.]. - [s.a.]. - [s.l.]. - [s.n.]. - 1980 (p. 179) |
| L' école de Prague : La peinture à la cour de Rodolphe II / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann. - Paris : Flammarion, 1985 (p. 277) |
| Een merkwaardige verzameling tekeningen door Leonard Bramer / Michiel C. Plomp. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (vol. 100, nr. 2, p. 140-141) |
| Roelant Savery : Kortrijk 1576 - 1639 Utrecht ; Hofmaler Kaiser Rudolf II in Prag ; Die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog / Kurt J. Müllenmeister. - Freren : Luca Verlag, 1988 (p. 213-216, cat. 50) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Robert Hoozee. - Brussel : Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, 1988 (p. 33, 39) |
| 200 jaar verzamelen : Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Arnout Balis, Robert Hoozee, Maximiliaan P.J. Martens, Paul Van Haute. - Gent : Ludion, 2000 (p. 272 (ill. 37)) |
| 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. 149 (ill.)) |
| Het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : een keuze uit de mooiste werken / Patrick De Rynck. - Gent : Ludion, 2007 (p. 31 (ill.)) |
| Roelandt Savery : A Painter in the Services of Emperor Rudolf II = Malír ve sluzbách císare Rudolfa II (exhibition Prague, National Gallery, 08.12.2010 - 20.03.2011 ; Kortrijk, Broelmuseum, 21.04.2011 - 11.09.2011) / Olga Kotková, Stefan Bartilla, Isabelle De Jaegere, Jiri Mlikovsky. - Prague : National Gallery (Praag), 2010 |
| Fables du paysage flamand : Bosch, Bles, Brueghel, Bril (exposition Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, 06.10.2012 - 14.01.2013) / Alain Tapié, Michel Weemans, Daniel Couty, Paul Vandenbroeck, Françoise Graziani. - Lille : Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, 2012 ; Paris : Somogy éditions d'art, 2012 (p. 222-223) |
| onder vrienden : 225 jaar verzamelaars rond het Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 25.11.2023 - 28.04.2024) / Johan De Smet, Frederica Van Dam, Willy Van der Gucht, Manfred Sellink. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2023 ; Gent : De Vrienden van het Museum, 2023 (p. 66, cat. 76 (ill.)) |
| Roelant Savery's wonderlijke wereld (tentoonstelling Den Haag, Mauritshuis, 08.02 - 20.05.2024) / Ariane Van Suchtelen. - Zwolle : Waanders Publishers, 2024 ; Den Haag : Mauritshuis, 2024 (pp.16, 24-25) |
| Roelant Savery's wondrous world (exhibition The Hague, Mauritshuis, 08.02 - 20.05.2024) / Ariane Van Suchtelen. - Zwolle : Waanders Publishers, 2024 ; The Hague : Mauritshuis, 2024 (pp.16, 24-25) |
| Mauritshuis in focus : bulletin van het Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen 'Mauritshuis' (voortzetting van: Nieuwsbrief Mauritshuis) ; voortgezet als: Mauritshuis magazine) (Den Haag). - Den Haag : Mauritshuis, [s.a.] (p.9) |
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