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Description: | Signed: yes Description: This is an erotic subject whose Dutch literary source is disputed. It may be the story of Granida and Daifilo, from a play by Pieter Cornelis Hooft of 1605. Granida was the Persian King's daughter who fell in love with the shepherd Daifilo. Van Bijlert was a Dutch painter from Utrecht, the son of a glass painter, who was initially trained in his father's profession. He entered the studio of Abraham Bloemaert in the early 1610s. After completing his training he travelled to France and Italy and was inspired on a visit to Rome in 1621-23, by the Italian artist Caravaggio. On his return to Utrecht he painted a few overtly Caravaggesque pictures such as St Sebastian, 1624 (Rohrau, Austria, Harrach Collection). However Van Bijlert subsequently lightened his palette and adopted a more classical style under the influence of Honthorst. | Subjects: | figure (man and woman); everyday life (pastoral); literature (Krul Laura's Droom-Liedt or Hooft Jan Harmens Pieter Cornelis The story of Granida and Daifilo[?]) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Bijlert, Jan van (Dutch painter, born ca. 1597, died 1671) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8368... | Go to resource |
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