Brand New!! Who Painted This? #54

Who painted this? #54

When I showtime came across this artist, inwards a book, I was amazed that I'd never heard of him earlier given his fame in addition to the success that he enjoyed inwards his lifetime.

Next calendar week I'll say you lot where you lot tin laissez passer on the sack run across unopen to fine examples of his paintings inwards London.

Don't forget also wanting the answers to all the usual questions (see below) I'd also similar to postulate heed nigh what you lot managed to honor out nigh the creative somebody in addition to icon - in addition to the best respond wins this week's challenge!

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Who Painted This #53 - The Answer

Winter past times Abel Grimmer

• Title of the artwork: Winter
• Name of the creative somebody who created this artwork: Abel Grimmer
• Date it was created: 1607
• Media used: Oil on panel, 33 x 47 cm
• Where it lives now: Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

Abel Grimmer is a Flemish painter of the Baroque era. He was born inwards Antwerp inwards 1570.  His manlike somebody nurture was Jacob Grimmer (1525-before May 1590) who was also a landscape painter. Grimmer's other influences were  Pieter Brueghel the Elder in addition to Hans Bol.

The 2 artists - manlike somebody nurture in addition to boy - specialised inwards landscapes in addition to ofttimes completed sets of paintings based on the Four Seasons or the Months of the Year - ofttimes including a Biblical scene. There was a vogue to re-create other painters or prints of sets of paintings.

You tin laissez passer on the sack see:

• a slideshow of to a greater extent than of his flavor in addition to calendar month paintings on BBC Paintings - Abel Grimmer. 
• more paintings on Wikimedia Commons
• His icon of the Tower of Babel which sold for £980,275 ($1,490,998) at Christies this summer
• a lot of paintings at auction past times Abel Grimmer

I was absolutely fascinated past times the details of the origins of this icon which you lot collectively succeeded inwards turning up. Don't you lot simply beloved the way fine art evolves over time!

Initial comments past times those providing answers propose that the antecedents of the icon are

• a serial of engravings past times Hieronymus Cock
• based on a serial of drawing past times Hans Bol (since lost)

Grimmer's icon was also recognised to live really similar a icon past times Pieter Brueghel the younger which is called Winter Landscape amongst Skaters ( of which at to the lowest degree i version resides inwards the Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University). However this was completed inwards 1616 which way the Grimmer came first!

Winter Landscape amongst Skaters past times Piter Brueghel the Youngeroil on panel, unframed sixteen 3/8 x 22 1/4 in. (41.5 x 56.5 cm)
sold at Christies Jan 2003

This weblog post (on Rompedas which is a really curious blog) nigh the icon past times Pieter Brueghel explains the sequence.

However I recall he relies on this catalogue description relating an fine art auction of plant past times Bol at Christies on Jan 23 inwards 2003

The composition of Pieter Brueghel the Younger's first-class wintertime landscape is closely based upon a lost drawing past times Hans Bol (1534-1593). Bol was both a draftsman in addition to painter, in addition to an accomplished watercolorist ( waterschilderen ). Many of his drawings were made into prints past times engravers such equally Hieronymous Cock in addition to Phillip Galle, in addition to inwards 1570, a twelvemonth after the decease of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hieronymus Cock published a serial of iv engravings depicting The Four Seasons . These had been commissioned past times the elderberry Bruegel, in addition to were to live after compositions that he was working on. The drawing for Spring, inwards the Albertina, is dated 1565, that for Summer 1568. However, Brueghel the Younger was unable to consummate all iv drawings earlier his death, in addition to Cock turned to Hans Bol to provide Autumn in addition to Winter inwards fourth dimension to expose his engravings inwards 1570. Neither of Bol's drawings survives. Ertz ( op. cit. ) notes that the nowadays icon is the earliest dated version of this composition. Both Pieter Brueghel the Younger in addition to Abel Grimmer used the serial equally the ground for paintings, Grimmer mostly remaining to a greater extent than rigorously faithful to the master drawing/engraving. The nowadays pic shows unopen to of the younger Brueghel's adaptations. For example, Cock in addition to Grimmer describe a circular isle amongst a tall conifer to the right of the castle. Brueghel introduces the footprints inwards the snowfall inwards the left foreground, whereas Grimmer shows the snowfall plainly untrod. Brueghel retains Cock's fallen branch inwards the foreground, adding unopen to twigs: these are nowadays inwards this picture, slightly altered inwards number in addition to position. Also, the composition in addition to appearance of the buildings inwards the right background are Brueghel's adaptations, equally are the large windows inwards the castle, in addition to the absence of men working inwards the fields inwards the left background.

However alerted past times these clues equally to the provenance of the icon I kept going in addition to constitute this

The drawings Spring ofr565 in addition to Summer, carried out iii years later, are designs for a laid upward of engravings devoted to the bike of the seasons, which Bruegel unfortunately did non complete: inwards 1570, a twelvemonth after Bruegel's death, Hieronymus Cock issued the full, four-part serial amongst Fall in addition to Winter designed past times Hans Bol. Although exclusively Spring bears the monogram ofPieter van der Heyden, nosotros tin laissez passer on the sack live reasonably certainly that this printmaker engraved the entire series;3 in addition to nosotros tin laissez passer on the sack clearly run across that inwards both Spring in addition to Summer he beau- tifully preserved the ability ofBruegel's spatial excogitation equally good equally the to a greater extent than fragile aspects of his drawings.

This comes from Pieter Bruegel the Elder : drawings in addition to prints / edited past times Nadine M. Orenstein ; amongst contributions past times Nadine M. Orenstein, Manfred Sellink, Jürgen Müller, Michel C. Plomp, Martin Royalton-Kisch, Larry Silver which I downloaded from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications in addition to scoured for references to drawings of seasons.

So - I recall nosotros straight off bring the answer.

The serial of images realised past times Grimmer started equally a serial developed past times Pieter Brueghel the Elder (who was the existent innovator). However he died having exclusively completed Spring. The serial of drawings were completed past times Hieronymus Cock - although the Autumn in addition to Winter images were designed past times Hans Bol. Abel Grimmer in addition to thence copied the entire serial - in addition to much subsequently Pieter Brueghel the Younger copied the Winter Landscape version of the Bol / Cock image.

There - nosotros got in that place inwards the end!

Who guessed correct?

Who painted this #53? - The showtime somebody to larn the right respond was happyjacqui - who also contributed significantly to my agreement of where this icon came from. Marie also got the respond right.

However theartistsday identified that it's usage of a distich - in addition to I constitute this link thence that you lot tin laissez passer on the sack run across Autumn in addition to Winter past times Abel Grimmer (plus Spring in addition to Summer past times Abel Grimmer)

However - the prize for the most comprehensive in addition to consummate respond i time again goes to Bernadette Madden!

Well done all of you lot - that was a actually challenging puzzle!

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