Reyer Jacobsz. Blommendael (died 1675)

Diana and her nymphs after the chase

Details

Reyer Jacobsz. Blommendael (died 1675)
Diana and her nymphs after the chase
oil on canvas
123.5 x 163 cm

Provenance

W.B. Paterson, The Hague, as J. Vermeer
with Sackville Galleries, London, 1911, as J. Vermeer
M.J. Spiller; Sale, Christie's London, 17 March 1939, lot 85, as J. van Loo
with Van der Ploeg, Amsterdam, 1953, as P. Bor

Literature

R. Fry, 'Diana and her nymphs', Burlington Magazine, XIX, 1911, pp.206-211, with ill., as J. Vermeer

Lot Essay

Reyer van Blommendael is first documented in Haarlem in the 1660s; he could earlier have been in Utrecht, as his style recalls Utrecht Caravaggism. As A. Hoyer points out in her thesis on Blommendael (Utrecht University 1992) the influence of the Haarlem classicist Pieter de Grebber is also manifest. The present picture is not included in Hoyer's catalogue raisonnée of his oeuvre; but it can be compared with the signed picture of 'Paris and Oenone' in the Musée des Beaux Arts, Lille, inv.no.P.1988 (A. Hoyer, Reyer van Blommendael, 1992, p.25, pp.41-46, no.3)

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