File:Portrait of a boy, head and shoulders, wearing a gorget (by Jan Lievens).jpg
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Jan Lievens: Portrait of a boy, head and shoulders, wearing a gorget ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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artist QS:P170,Q430783 (Leiden 1607–1674 Amsterdam) |
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Portrait of a boy, head and shoulders, wearing a gorget |
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English: This strongly-lit picture is an early work by Jan Lievens, painted in the mid-1620s, when he must have been exposed to the first generation of Dutch Caravaggisti who were starting to return to the North from Rome. Over the last decade and a half, several early works by Jan Lievens have come to light, and his early œuvre, and the dating of it, has been reassessed. The exhibition devoted to him in 2009 under a team of distinguished scholars led by Arthur Wheelock was subtitled with good reason A Dutch Master Rediscovered, and cast much fresh light on various aspects of Lievens’ career, not least of which his work at its outset, in the mid-1620s.
Werner Sumowski, who first published this work, had earlier thought it to be by Rembrandt’s pupil Jacob Backer, but rightly compared it with the cycle of the Evangelists in Bamberg, which is generally dated circa 1626–27. The broad handling of the St John in particular is reminiscent of the present work, but much more striking is the likeness of the model. Sumowski suggested that the St John might be a self-portrait, although in fact the suggestion had already been made by Helga Gutbrod in 1996, as Arthur Wheelock noted in his catalogue entry. Yet closer to the present work in style and handling is the strongly Caravaggesque and dramatically lit Saint Peter Released from Prison, which came to light at Sotheby’s in London in July 2000, and which, restored, was included in the 2009 exhibition. The physiognomy of the Angel strongly resembles the present youth, and must have been based on the same model, perhaps also Lievens himself. The Saint Peter Released from Prison is likely to be even earlier in date, circa 1624–5, and the present work too is likely to date from no later than 1626. |
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Date | mid-1620s | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium | oil on oak panel | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Dimensions | 50.3 x 38.9 cm.; 19¾ x 15¼ in. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2023/old-master-and-19th-century-paintings-day-auction-part-i/portrait-of-a-boy-head-and-shoulders-wearing-a |
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