Gerbrand van den Eeckhout

Dutch, 1621 - 1674

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Four people, a dog, and a donkey are gathered next to a copse of trees and in front of a run-down town in the background in this horizontal painting. All the people have pale skin. To the left, a barefoot man with a long gray beard and a fur-trimmed cap stands holding a tool in one hand and his other extended toward the other people. He wears a loose white shirt, and a dagger hangs from the waist of his tan, knee-length pants. A brown and white dog sniffs, with head lowered, one of the man’s bare feet. The man’s face is heavily lined and he looks at the second man and a woman in the lower right quadrant of the painting with deep-set eyes. There, a man wearing a harvest-yellow robe under a red cape and a feathered, jeweled turban sits on a rock. He looks back at the first with his head resting in one hand and his other hand held up. This second man has chin-length, wavy brown hair and a dark blond mustache and thin beard. A rosette or other object is tied at his waist, and the hilt of a sword is visible behind his hip. The woman sits on the ground next to him, one arm draped over his lap. She wears a gray headscarf and a teal cloak over a golden yellow dress. The thumb on her other hand is hooked through the red, studded collar of a tiny gray dog in her lap. The dog bares its teeth at the first man. A wooden casket and a basket holding cloth and a jug are just behind the woman. Behind that are two donkeys and the fourth person, a clean-shaven man who peers over the donkeys’ backs at the seated man. Trees to the right grow up around a mostly hidden structure. Grasses and plants grow along the ruined rooflines of the town behind the first man. A bank of khaki-brown and carnation-pink clouds billow up in the sky above, which deepens from pale blue along the top of the canvas to pale petal pink along the horizon.
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, The Levite at Gibeah, early 1640s, oil on canvas, Gift of Emile E. Wolf, 1996.99.1

The Levite at Gibeah

Gerbrand van den Eeckhout · early 1640s · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1996.99.1

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A Standing Young Man

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Jurriaan Cootwyck, Christian Josi · published 1821 · etching, aquatint, and roulette printed in brown ink ·  Accession ID  1974.6.1.23

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A Young Man Reading

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Jurriaan Cootwyck, Christian Josi · published 1821 · etching and roulette printed in brown ink ·  Accession ID  1974.6.1.22

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Village Scene

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Christian Josi · published 1821 · etching and roulette printed in black ink ·  Accession ID  1974.6.1.25

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Horticulturist

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Cornelis Brouwer, Christian Josi · 1780, published 1821 · etching and aquatint printed in brown ink ·  Accession ID  1974.6.1.28

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Cornelis Brouwer, Horticulturist, 1780, published 1787, etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper, Gift of Sherwood B. Smith, Jr., 1977.67.16

Horticulturist

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Cornelis Brouwer · 1780, published 1787 · etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1977.67.16

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Village Scene

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Christian Josi · 1767, published 1821 · etching and roulette printed in brown ink ·  Accession ID  1974.6.1.24

Bibliography

1753

  • Houbraken, Arnold. De Groote Schouburgh der Nederlantsche Konstschilders en Schilderessen. 3 vols. in 1. The Hague, 1753 (Reprint: Amsterdam, 1976): 1:174; 2:100-101.

1972

  • Roy, Rainer. "Studien zu Gerbrand van den Eeckhout." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Vienna, 1972.

1983

  • Sumowski, Werner. Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler. 6 vols. Landau, 1983: 2:1311-1767; 6:3706-3733.

1991

  • MacLaren, Neil. The Dutch School, 1600-1900. Revised and expanded by Christopher Brown. 2 vols. National Gallery Catalogues. London, 1991: 1:127-128.