Who Painted This? #54

Who painted this? #54

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

Next calendar week I'll say you lot where you lot tin run into to a greater extent than or less 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 ask heed most what you lot managed to honour out most the creative somebody too ikon - too 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 begetter was Jacob Grimmer (1525-before May 1590) who was also a landscape painter. Grimmer's other influences were  Pieter Brueghel the Elder too Hans Bol.

The 2 artists - begetter too boy - specialised inwards landscapes too oft completed sets of paintings based on the Four Seasons or the Months of the Year - oft including a Biblical scene. There was a style to re-create other painters or prints of sets of paintings.

You tin see:

• a slideshow of to a greater extent than of his flavour too calendar month paintings on BBC Paintings - Abel Grimmer. 
• more paintings on Wikimedia Commons
• His ikon 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 ikon which you lot collectively succeeded inwards turning up. Don't you lot but dearest the way fine art evolves over time!

Initial comments past times those providing answers advise that the antecedents of the ikon are

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

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

Winter Landscape amongst Skaters past times Piter Brueghel the Youngeroil on panel, unframed xvi 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 rattling curious blog) most the ikon past times Pieter Brueghel explains the sequence.

However I remember 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 fantabulous wintertime landscape is closely based upon a lost drawing past times Hans Bol (1534-1593). Bol was both a draftsman too painter, too an accomplished watercolorist ( waterschilderen ). Many of his drawings were made into prints past times engravers such equally Hieronymous Cock too Phillip Galle, too inwards 1570, a yr after the decease of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hieronymus Cock published a serial of 4 engravings depicting The Four Seasons . These had been commissioned past times the elderberry Bruegel, too 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 4 drawings earlier his death, too Cock turned to Hans Bol to provide Autumn too Winter inwards fourth dimension to discover his engravings inwards 1570. Neither of Bol's drawings survives. Ertz ( op. cit. ) notes that the nowadays ikon is the earliest dated version of this composition. Both Pieter Brueghel the Younger too Abel Grimmer used the serial equally the footing for paintings, Grimmer to a greater extent than oft than non remaining to a greater extent than rigorously faithful to the master copy drawing/engraving. The nowadays motion-picture exhibit shows to a greater extent than or less of the younger Brueghel's adaptations. For example, Cock too 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 to a greater extent than or less twigs: these are nowadays inwards this picture, slightly altered inwards number too position. Also, the composition too appearance of the buildings inwards the right background are Brueghel's adaptations, equally are the large windows inwards the castle, too the absence of men working inwards the fields inwards the left background.

However alerted past times these clues equally to the provenance of the ikon I kept going too institute this

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

This comes from Pieter Bruegel the Elder : drawings too 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 too scoured for references to drawings of seasons.

So - I remember nosotros right away accept 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 solely completed Spring. The serial of drawings were completed past times Hieronymus Cock - although the Autumn too Winter images were designed past times Hans Bol. Abel Grimmer too hence copied the entire serial - too much later on 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 start somebody to larn the right respond was happyjacqui - who also contributed significantly to my agreement of where this ikon came from. Marie also got the respond right.

However theartistsday identified that it's role of a dyad - too I institute this link hence that you lot tin run into Autumn too Winter past times Abel Grimmer (plus Spring too Summer past times Abel Grimmer)

However - the prize for the most comprehensive too consummate respond ane time again goes to Bernadette Madden!

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

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