[Frans van Mieris the elder] - Naumann, Otto
Reference : 026235
(1981)
ISBN : 9070288044
Naumann, Otto: Frans van Mieris the Elder (1635-1681). 2 vols. Doornspijk: 1981. Series: Aetas Aurea: Monographs on Dutch & Flemish Painting. Volume I: 292 pages. Volume II: 224 pages of text. Cloth. 31.5x23cms. Major reference work on the 17th century genre painter and contemporary of ter Borch, de Hooch, Vermeer and Gerard Dou. Catalogue raisonnÃ.
Major reference work on the 17th century genre painter and contemporary of ter Borch, de Hooch, Vermeer and Gerard Dou. Catalogue raisonnÃ.
New York Otto Naumann Gall.95: Inaugural Exhibition of Old Master Paintings . 1995. 140 pages of text with 36 colour plates (many full-page) and 6 colour, 2 duotone and 21 monochrome illustrations plus 136 colour plates. Cloth. 32x24.5cms. Well illustrated, descriptive catalogue of 31 Old Master paintings (mostly Dutch school) offered for sale. Artists featured include Rubens, Marco Ricci, Clara Peeters, Jan Steen, and Gerrit Berckheyde. Includes a section on paintings sold in the past.
Well illustrated, descriptive catalogue of 31 Old Master paintings (mostly Dutch school) offered for sale. Artists featured include Rubens, Marco Ricci, Clara Peeters, Jan Steen, and Gerrit Berckheyde. Includes a section on paintings sold in the past. Text in English
, Aetas Aurea,Vol. I , 1981, Davaco., Cloth bound, dusjacket, 2 vols. in 4to. 516 pp. of text, 468 illustrations, including 12 color plates. ISBN 9070288044.
Frans van Mieris the Elder is one of the major seventeenth-century Dutch genre painters (1635-1681). His pictures are of remarkable quality, and they attest to his vital role in the development of painting in his time. With Gerard ter Borch, Nicolaes Maes, Pieter de Hooch, Johannes Vermeer, Gabriel Metsu and Gerard Dou, Frans van Mieris participated in the greatest era of Dutch genre painting.This study attempts first to establish the core of surviving works, setting them in chronological order based on a structure of dated paintings. Undated pictures are arranged in relationship to this core and to dated or datable paintings by other artists. Van Mieris' oeuvre is most interesting in this latter aspect: in the establishment of subjects and stylistic formulae he often precedes his contemporaries. By combining various elements from earlier pictures with his personal style Van Mieris made a significant contribution to Dutch genre painting.Van Mieris's leadership among the fijnschilders of his day contributed significantly to the development of Dutch painting towards a tighter, more refined style. Often, paintings executed in this manner during the last quarter of the seventeenth century can be seen to derive from his prototype or from a series of related paintings based on his primary example.