Jan Fyt
Paintings
A Still Life with Fruit Dead Game and a Parrot
Dead Birds in a Landscape
A wolf
Studies of the head of a wild boar
A Peacock In A Landscape With Roosters Turkeys, Ducks A Heron And A Parrot
Bittern And Ducks Startled By Dogs
Diana With Her Hunting Dogs Beside Kill
Still Life With Fruits And Parrot
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Workshop of Jan Fyt
A bird concert
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A wolf
Jan (or Johannes) Fyt (or Fijt) (15 March 1611 – 11 September 1661) was a Flemish Baroque animal painter and etcher.
Life
Fyt was born in Antwerp, where he was baptized on 15 June 1611. He was registered in 1621 as apprentice to Hans van den Berghe, who was a restorer of old pictures rather than a painter of new ones. Fyt then trained with Frans Snyders between about 1629–31, during which time, at the age of twenty, he entered the guild of St Luke as a master. From then until his death in 1661, he produced a vast number of paintings in which the bold facility of Frans Snyders is united to the powerful effects of Rembrandt, and harmonies of gorgeous tone are not less conspicuous than freedom of touch and a true semblance of nature.
He left Antwerp for Paris in 1633, travelling on to Italy the following year, where he worked in Venice and visited Naples, Florence, and Rome, where he joined the Bentvueghels with the nickname "Goudvink" (goldfinch).[1] He later joined the Guild of Romanists, once he returned to Antwerp by 1641. Here he got married in 1654.
Work
Hunting trophies
Fyt excelled in the rendering of animal life in its most varied forms. He may have been less correct in outline, less bold in action than Snyders, but he was much more skilful and more true in the reproduction of the coat of deer, dogs, greyhounds, hares and monkeys, whilst in realizing the plumage of peacocks, woodcocks, ducks, hawks, and cocks and hens, he had no equal, nor was any artist even of the Dutch school more effective in relieving his compositions with accessories of tinted cloth, porcelain ware, vases and fruit.
He was not clever at figures, and he sometimes entrusted these to the co-operation of Cornelius Schut or Thomas Willeboirts Bosschaert, whilst his architectural backgrounds were sometimes executed by Erasmus Quellinus II. Silenus amongst Fruit and Flowers, in the Harrach collection at Vienna, Diana and her Nymphs with the Produce of the Chase, in the Belvedere at Vienna, and Dead Game and Fruit in front of a Triumphal Arch, belonging to Baron von Rothschild at Vienna, are specimens of the co-operation respectively of Schut, Willeborts and Quellyn. They are also Fyt's masterpieces. The earliest dated work of the master is a cat grabbing at a piece of dead poultry near a hare and birds, belonging to Baron Cetto at Munich, and executed in 1644. The last one is a Dead Snipe with Ducks, of 1660, sold with the Jäger collection at Cologne in 1871.
Great power is shown in the bear and boar hunts at Munich and Ravensworth castle. A Hunted Roedeer with Dogs in the Water, in the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, has some of the life and more of the roughness of Snyders, but lacks variety of tint and finish. A splendid specimen is the Page and Parrot near a table covered with game, guarded by a dog staring at a monkey, in the Wallace collection. With the needle and the brush Fyt was equally clever. He etched 16 plates of which those representing dogs are particularly accomplished.
Collections
Fyt's paintings are part of the collections of a few British institutions including Northampton, Derby Art Gallery, National Gallery and the Bowes Museum.[2]
Notes
Citations
Joannes Fyt at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (Dutch)
References
Gregory Martin, The Flemish School, 1600–1900, National Gallery Catalogues, 1970, National Gallery, London, ISBN 0-901791-02-4
Further Reading
Liedtke , Walter A. (1984). Flemish paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 0870993569. (see index).
External links
Dutch and Flemish paintings from the Hermitage, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Jan Fyt (cat. no. 41)
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Fyt, Johannes". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press..
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