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[Gonzales Coques] - Lisken-Pruss, Marion
Reference : 085065
(2013)
ISBN : 2503515681
Gonzales Coques (1614-1684). Der kleine Van Dyck. Pictura Nova. XIII
Lisken-Pruss, Marion: Gonzales Coques (1614-1684). Der kleine Van Dyck. Turnhout: 2013. Series: Pictura Nova. XIII. 300pp., with 29 colour and 120 monochrome illustrations. Cloth. 25 x 19cms. Long-awaited catalogue raisonné of the Flemish portrait painter Gonzales Coques, active in Antwerp and England. He excelled in painting diminutive portraits and family groups of the middle classes and aristocracy with meticulously executed backgrounds. The elegance of his cabinet-size paintings won him the title 'the little Van Dyck'. Text in German.
Long-awaited catalogue raisonné of the Flemish portrait painter Gonzales Coques, active in Antwerp and England. He excelled in painting diminutive portraits and family groups of the middle classes and aristocracy with meticulously executed backgrounds. The elegance of his cabinet-size paintings won him the title 'the little Van Dyck'. Text in German
Gonzales Coques (1614-1684), Der kleine Van Dyck
, Brepols Publishers, 2013 hardback with dusjacket, 495 pages ., 100 b/w ill. 29 colour ill., 190 x 250 mm, Languages: German only. ISBN 9782503515687.
The position of Gonzales Coques in seventeenth century Flemish painting is shown by his contemporary nickname of 'The little Van Dyck'. Coques developed a smale scale portrait style influenced by Anthony van Dyck and successfully extended the aristocratic portrait tradition to the middle classes. He also succeeded in combining aristocratic flair with an ethical view of the world and personal icons in small paintings. In the second half of the seventeenth century there was a marked trend towards small pictures in the Netherlands. Coques? middle class individual portraits are the same size as those of his fellow painters but his middle class family portraits are about 25% smaller than the average contemporary group pictures. Collections of cabinet paintings were conversation pieces that showed private life through the medium of painting.
