Karel Dujardin | |
|---|---|
 Self-portrait, 1662 | |
| Born | Karel Dujardin 1626 |
| Died | 1678 |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Known for | Painting |
| Movement | Dutch Golden Age painting |
Karel Dujardin (September 27, 1626[1] – November 20, 1678) was aDutch Golden Age painter. Although he did a few portraits and a fewhistory paintings of religious subjects, most of his work is small Italianate landscape scenes with animals and peasants, and othergenre scenes. Dujardin spent two extended periods, at the beginning and end of his career, in Italy, and most of his paintings and landscape etchings have an Italian or Italianate setting.
Karel Dujardin was a Dutch painter andetcher, born inAmsterdam in 1626. Typical of his landscape paintings isFarm Animals in the Shade of a Tree (1656;National Gallery, London). He died inVenice in 1678.
After supposedly training withNicolaes Berchem,[2] the young Dujardin went toItaly, and joined theBentvueghels group of painters inRome, among whom he was known as"Barba di Becco", "goat-beard", orBokkebaart.[3] Here he encountered his first artistic successes.
According to Houbraken, while inLyon in France, he contracted considerable debts, and married his (older) landlady to free himself of them. He went with her to Amsterdam, where his pictures were valued very highly.[3] In 1675, he returned to Rome, on an invitation from his friend Joan Reynst and was welcomed by his old friends and admirers. Renst and Dujardin went on aGrand Tour to other Italian cities, but when Reynst went back to Amsterdam, Dujardin remained in Italy, and gave him a message for his wife that he would follow soon.[3]
He travelled on toVenice but died there unexpectedly in 1678. According to Reynst, he had said: "why should I be in a hurry to go back? I am where I want to be".[3] According to his friendJohannes Glauber, who he had met previously in Rome, he was painting for a Dutch merchant in Venice when he suddenly became unwell. Though he seemed to recover, his stomach wastoo full and he died. Though he was a member of theDutch Reformed Church, he was laid to rest in the Catholic manner (wrapped in a white shroud) and was carried to his grave by his friendsGovert van der Leeuw and Glauber.[3]
Among his pupils were Jacob II, son ofJacob van der Does,Martinus Laeckman, andErick van den Weerelt.[4]
Dujardin is represented in the following collections amongst others: Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK; Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Louvre Museum, Paris; Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota; National Gallery, London, UK; Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Crocker Art Museum, California; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK; Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts; Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; Ringling Museum of Art, Florida; Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium; Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago; Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest; The Wallace Collection, London, UK; Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid; Rhode Island School of Design, RI;Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend-on-Sea.
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