Ragazzo che accende la pipa

Reference: S42145
Author Cornelis Van NOORDE
Year: 1765
Measures: 125 x 140 mm
€250.00

Reference: S42145
Author Cornelis Van NOORDE
Year: 1765
Measures: 125 x 140 mm
€250.00

Description

Etching and engraving, lettered in top right: "F. Hals pinx." and "C.V.N. 1765".  After Frans Hals.

A peasant man wearing a hat and lighting his pipe, bust directed to right but looking at the viewer.

Cornelis van Noorde (1731-1795) was a Dutch landscape painter and draughtsman, Van Noorde was a teacher and director of the Haarlem Teekenacademie (drawing academy), of which he was one of the founding members in 1772. Among his pupils were Augustijn Claterbos, Warnaar Horstink, and Johannes Swertner. Cornelis seemed to have kept up the academy somewhat on his own because three weeks after he died it was dissolved in 1795. Van Noorde worked almost exclusively in watercolour, producing portraits, landscapes and architectural views, which have brought him most fame.

Bibliografia

Wurzbach 1906-11 / Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, 28.

Cornelis Van NOORDE (12 marzo 1731, Haarlem, Paesi Bassi - 16 ottobre 1795, Haarlem, Paesi Bassi)

Dutch landscape painter and draughtsman, Cornelis was taught by Frans Decker, and after he died in 1751, by Tako Hajo Jelgersma. Originally Cornelis was apprenticed to his father, but his considerable artistic talents led him to choose another career. In 1761 he became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St Luke. Van Noorde lived in a house on the Oude Gracht which he had inherited from his artist uncle Cornelis van der Berg, who had also kept a studio there. Van Noorde was a teacher and director of the Haarlem Teekenacademie (drawing academy), of which he was one of the founding members in 1772. Among his pupils were Augustijn Claterbos, Warnaar Horstink, and Johannes Swertner. Cornelis seemed to have kept up the academy somewhat on his own because three weeks after he died it was dissolved in 1795. Van Noorde worked almost exclusively in watercolour, producing portraits, landscapes, copies after 17th-century paintings, and architectural views, which have brought him most fame. The artist died on October 16, 1795 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Cornelis Van NOORDE (12 marzo 1731, Haarlem, Paesi Bassi - 16 ottobre 1795, Haarlem, Paesi Bassi)

Dutch landscape painter and draughtsman, Cornelis was taught by Frans Decker, and after he died in 1751, by Tako Hajo Jelgersma. Originally Cornelis was apprenticed to his father, but his considerable artistic talents led him to choose another career. In 1761 he became a member of the Haarlem Guild of St Luke. Van Noorde lived in a house on the Oude Gracht which he had inherited from his artist uncle Cornelis van der Berg, who had also kept a studio there. Van Noorde was a teacher and director of the Haarlem Teekenacademie (drawing academy), of which he was one of the founding members in 1772. Among his pupils were Augustijn Claterbos, Warnaar Horstink, and Johannes Swertner. Cornelis seemed to have kept up the academy somewhat on his own because three weeks after he died it was dissolved in 1795. Van Noorde worked almost exclusively in watercolour, producing portraits, landscapes, copies after 17th-century paintings, and architectural views, which have brought him most fame. The artist died on October 16, 1795 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.