Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael

Uytewael, Joachim Anthonisz
Wttewael, Joachim Anthonisz
Utenwael, Joachim Anthonisz
Wtenwael, Joachim Anthonisz
Wtewael, Joachim Antonisz

Dutch, c. 1566 - 1638

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A group of light-skinned people and animals gather in an oval ring around a shallow pool in a wooded landscape in this horizontal painting. Deep in shadow but closest to us, animals, objects, and people create a continuous band in the foreground. From left to right is a horse, a reclining woman and small child, a goat tended by a nude child, a dog sniffing at a pile of crockery, baskets, and metal pans and dishes, a cat lapping from a shallow pewter dish, and a young man drinking from a dish or large shell in the lower right corner. Beyond this and to our right, an older man with gray hair and beard and wearing turquoise, pink, and blue robes taps an outcropping of rocks with a thin rod. Water gushes in thin streams from the outcropping into the pool below. The bearded man is surrounded by several standing men and women. Men, women, and children bend over the edge of the pool around its perimeter, filling or drinking from jugs, dishes, and pans. Most of the men wear long robes and some wear turbans, and the women wear long dresses or robes in teal, aquamarine, shell pink, pale yellow, and ivory. Trees enclose this group to the left and at the center of the painting. Another band of dozens of people, animals, and wagons line the horizon in the distance. They are painted in pale gray, blue, pink, and white. The horizon line comes three-quarters of the way up the composition and glimpses of vibrant blue sky and white clouds are seen through breaks in the trees. Light glints off of clothing, smooth skin, the fur of the animals, and especially the metalware in the foreground to give the painting a glimmering, almost glossy look.
Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael, Moses Striking the Rock, 1624, oil on panel, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1972.11.1

Moses Striking the Rock

Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael · 1624 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1972.11.1

Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael, The Judgment of Paris, c. 1615, pen and brown ink with gray washes over black chalk on laid paper, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1990.35.1

The Judgment of Paris

Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael · c. 1615 · pen and brown ink with gray washes over black chalk on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1990.35.1

Willem van Swanenburgh, Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael, Christoffel van Sichem I, The Last Judgment, 1606, engraving on laid paper, Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen, 2012.92.614

The Last Judgment

Willem van Swanenburgh, Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael, Christoffel van Sichem I · 1606 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2012.92.614

Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael, Mercury and Argus, pen and brown ink with gray-brown wash on laid paper squared with brown ink, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1973.41.1

Mercury and Argus

Joachim Anthonisz Wtewael · · pen and brown ink with gray-brown wash on laid paper squared with brown ink ·  Accession ID  1973.41.1

Willem van Swanenburgh, Christoffel van Sichem I, Christ Carrying the Cross, 1606, engraving on laid paper , Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen, 2012.92.613

Christ Carrying the Cross

Willem van Swanenburgh, Christoffel van Sichem I · 1606 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2012.92.613

Christoffel van Sichem I, Willem van Swanenburgh, Alexander the Great Seated in Justice, 1606, engraving on laid paper, Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen, 2012.92.610

Alexander the Great Seated in Justice

Christoffel van Sichem I, Willem van Swanenburgh · 1606 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2012.92.610

Willem van Swanenburgh, Christoffel van Sichem I, Allegory of Justice, 1606, engraving on laid paper, Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen, 2012.92.611

Allegory of Justice

Willem van Swanenburgh, Christoffel van Sichem I · 1606 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2012.92.611

Willem van Swanenburgh, Christoffel van Sichem I, Suzannah before Daniel, 1606, engraving on laid paper, Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen, 2012.92.615

Suzannah before Daniel

Willem van Swanenburgh, Christoffel van Sichem I · 1606 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2012.92.615

Willem van Swanenburgh, Christoffel van Sichem I, Beheading of the Roman Judge Papinian, 1606, engraving on laid paper, Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen, 2012.92.612

Beheading of the Roman Judge Papinian

Willem van Swanenburgh, Christoffel van Sichem I · 1606 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2012.92.612

Willem van Swanenburgh, Christoffel van Sichem II, The Judgment of Solomon, c. 1600, engraving on laid paper, Gift of Charles Hack, 2008.55.2

The Judgment of Solomon

Willem van Swanenburgh, Christoffel van Sichem II · c. 1600 · engraving on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2008.55.2

Bibliography

1604

  • Mander, Karel van. Het Schilder-boeck. Haerlem, 1604: 296-297.

1618

  • Mander, Karel van. Het Schilder-boek. 1604. 2nd ed. Amsterdam, 1618: 296-297.

1929

  • Lindeman, Catherine Marius Anne Alettus. Joachim Anthonisz. Wtewael. Utrecht, 1929.

1986

  • Lowenthal, Anne W. Joachim Wtewael and Dutch Mannerism. Doornspijk, 1986.

1991

  • MacLaren, Neil. The Dutch School, 1600-1900. Revised and expanded by Christopher Brown. 2 vols. National Gallery Catalogues. London, 1991: 1:501-502.

1993

  • Luijten, Ger. Dawn of the Golden Age: Northern Netherlandish Art 1580-1620. Exh. cat. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Zwolle, 1993: 326-327.

1995

  • Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 393-394.

1997

  • Bok, Marten Jan. "Biographies." In Masters of Light: Dutch Painters in Utrecht during the Golden Age. Edited by Joaneath A. Spicer and Lynn Federle Orr. Exh. cat. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; National Gallery, London. New Haven, 1997: 392-393.