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拍品專文
In his Teutsche Academie of 1675, German painter and biographer Joachim von Sandrart (1606-1688) remarked that Jacob Backer, whom he knew personally, frequently painted after live models. The man depicted here appears in several other works by the artist; he appears in the same pose as a bystander in The Continence of Scipio, probably one of Backer’s most ambitious large-scale history works, now known only from a copy. He is also depicted in the guise of the Greek philosopher Democritus of Abdera (460-370 BC), known as the laughing philosopher, in a painting with Salomon Lilian, Amsterdam (see Hillegers, op. cit., pp. 6-13). A painting at the Landesmuseum in Mainz (inv. no. 808), Old man with a coin, also known as an Allegory of Avarice, shows him in the guise of a grinning old miser, turning to the viewer.
With his distinctive white beard, hooked nose and expressive features, the model was clearly much in demand; he appears in works by a number of other artists, including Simon Kick, Salamon Koninck, Hendrick Pot, Adriaen von Ostade and Thomas de Keyser, a selection of which are illustrated in Hillegers, op. cit., p. 11, figs. 10a-i.
We are grateful to Peter van den Brink for endorsing the attribution to Jacob Backer on the basis of first-hand inspection, having previously known the painting only from old black-and-white images, and for proposing a dating to the first half of the 1630s.
With his distinctive white beard, hooked nose and expressive features, the model was clearly much in demand; he appears in works by a number of other artists, including Simon Kick, Salamon Koninck, Hendrick Pot, Adriaen von Ostade and Thomas de Keyser, a selection of which are illustrated in Hillegers, op. cit., p. 11, figs. 10a-i.
We are grateful to Peter van den Brink for endorsing the attribution to Jacob Backer on the basis of first-hand inspection, having previously known the painting only from old black-and-white images, and for proposing a dating to the first half of the 1630s.