The goldfinch
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| The goldfinch (nl. = Het puttertje) |
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| Carel Fabritius , 1654 |
| oil on wood |
| 33.5 x 22.8 cm |
| Mauritshuis , The Hague |
The goldfinch is a painting by the Delft painter Carel Fabritius from 1654.
description
The small-format picture, painted as a trompe-l'oeil , shows a goldfinch ( Carduelis carduelis ). The bird sits in front of a simple gray box with a lid, which - supported by two consoles - is attached to the wall. He is tied to the upper of the two perches around the box with a long thin chain attached to his right foot. The picture is painted from below , so it was intended to be attached above the viewer's head height. The painting is signed and dated C FABRITIUS 1654 at the bottom .
history
The picture is one of three paintings that Fabritius painted in 1654, the year he was killed in the explosion of the Delft powder magazine . The picture appears for the first time in 1861 in a catalog of the painting collection of Joseph-Guillaume-Jean Camberlyn (1783–1861). In 1865 it was sold to the French art collector Théophile Thoré in Paris. When Thoré's collection was auctioned on December 5, 1892 in the Hôtel Drouot in Paris, it was bought by the painter Étienne-François Haro (1827–1897). On February 27, 1896, Abraham Bredius , director of the Mauritshuis since 1889 , bought the picture for a sum of 6,200 francs for his museum, the Dutch royal picture gallery. The picture was cleaned in 2003 by Jørgen Wadum, then chief curator of the Mauritshuis, in the exhibition during opening hours.
Traveling exhibition
From January 2013 to January 2014, the picture was shown at a traveling exhibition in three US museums:
- January 26 - June 2, 2013 at the MH de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco
- June 22 - September 29, 2013 at the High Museum of Art , Atlanta
- October 22, 2013 - January 19, 2014 at the Frick Collection in New York
reception
- About the reception of the “thistle finch”, Benedikt Erenz wrote in the ZEIT , “[the] art science just can't get hold of him”. The painting is "as popular as Rembrandt's Night Watch, and not just in the Netherlands ."
- In 1999 the goldfinch was the motif of an 80 cent stamp from the Dutch Post and in 2004 a 78 cent stamp, also from the Dutch Post.
- The painting "The Goldfinch" is named and the subject of the plot of the novel The Goldfinch (original title: The Goldfinch ) the American author Donna Tartt , of the 2014 Pulitzer Prize was awarded. The book was filmed in 2019 under the title The Distelfink, based on a script by Peter Straughan and starring Nicole Kidman in a leading role.
literature
- Magdi Toth-Ubbens: Mauristshuis The Hague. (= The little art book ). From the Dutch by Heinz P. Kövari. Knorr & Hirth, Ahrbeck / Hannover 1977, p. 55. ISBN 3-7821-1114-1 .
Web links
- Carel Fabritius, The Goldfinch, 1654 . In: Mauritshuis.nl (English, Dutch)
- Alexandra Matzner: Carel Fabritius - The Goldfinch . In: ArtinWords.de, September 24, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Masterworks from the Mauritshuis
- ↑ Openbare restauratie van het Puttertje van Carel Fabritius , accessed on March 12, 2019.
- ^ Dutch paintings from the Mauritshuis , accessed March 12, 2019.
- ↑ Andrew Alexander: A Critic's Notebook: Girl with a Pearl enters the home stretch , accessed December 21, 2018.
- ^ Exhibition Mauritshuis , accessed December 31, 2014.
- ↑ Benedikt Erenz: art: The Secret of the Soldier , Die Zeit No. 6, February 3, 2005 ( online )
- ↑ The goldfinch. In: Internet Movie Database (IMDb). Retrieved June 15, 2020 .