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Christiaen van Couwenbergh

Christiaen Van Couwenbergh Painting - The Departure Of Aeneas From Dido Queen Of Carthage by Christiaen van Couwenbergh

The Departure Of Aeneas From Dido Queen Of Carthage

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Three Young White Men and a Black Woman

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Woman with a Basket of Fruit

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Kitchen Still-Life with a Boy

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Kitchen Still-Life with a Boy (detail)

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Nymph and Satyr

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The Capture of Samson

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Venus and Adonis

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Diana

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The prodigal son

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Joseph and Potiphar's wife

Christiaen van Couwenbergh, (8 July 1604 - 4 July 1667)[1] was a Dutch Golden Age painter.


Biography

Couwenbergh was born in Delft. His father Gillis was a silversmith, engraver, and art dealer from Mechelen. Gillis had moved to Delft before 1604 where he married Adriaantje Vosmaer, the sister of the flower painter Jacob Vosmaer.[1] Christiaen learned to paint from Johan van Nes,[2] and then entered the Guild of St. Luke in Delft in 1627. He then travelled back and forth to Italy. After his return, he settled in The Hague where he joined the Confrerie Pictura in 1647 and became deacon in 1649.[1] He specialized in large historical allegories as wall decorations, often with life-sized nudes. He not only painted, but also produced drawings and designs for tapestries. His patrons were Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, among other royal admirers, for wall decorations at Huis ter Nieuwburg, Huis ten Bosch and Huis Honselaarsdijk. Queen Christina of Sweden purchased a series of tapestries designed by him.

He later moved to Cologne between 1654-1656, where he later died.[1][2] He is known for portraits and historical allegories and is judged to be one of those influenced by Caravaggio.[1]


References

Couwenbergh, Christiaen Gillisz. van at the RKD databases

Kristiaen van Kouwenberch biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature

External links

Vermeer and The Delft School, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has material on Christiaen van Couwenbergh

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