Jacob van Hulsdonck

Set table
Jacob van Hulsdonck , ca.1615
Oil on panel
48.5 cm × 64.5 cm
Rijksmuseum Twenthe , Enschede

Jacob van Hulsdonck (* 1582 in Antwerp ; † 1647 there ) was a Dutch still life painter .

biography

Jacob van Hulsdonck was born in Antwerp in 1582. After his parents moved to Middelburg , he spent his youth and apprenticeship there. His teacher is unknown, although Willigen and Meijer rule out an apprenticeship in the Bosschaert studio . In 1608 he was accepted as a master in the Guild of St. Luke in Antwerp. The following year, 1609, he married Maria la Hoes in Middelburg. He and her had 7 children, including Gillis van Hulsdonck, who, like his father, became a painter. Jacob van Hulsdonck had various apprentices a. a. in the years 1613, 1617/18 and 1622/23. Maria la Hoes died in 1629, after which Jacob van Hulsdonck married the ship's widow Josina Peeters. She gave him another son. Jacob van Hulsdonck died in 1647 near or in Antwerp.

Art historical importance

Jacob van Hulsdonck, “Imbissbild”, 1614, oil on panel, 51.5 × 85.5 cm, Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle

Jacob van Hulsdonck belongs like u. a. Jan Brueghel the Elder Ä. , Osias Beert and Clara Peeters to the group of early Flemish still life painters. As with other still life painters of the early 17th century, Jacob van Hulsdonck was not yet specialized in a subject in the sense of a certain type of still life. So there are pieces of flowers and pieces of fruit as well as banquetjes (snack pictures) of him. His meal still lifes show the arrangement of numerous objects on a table that was typical of the time and avoided overlaps, viewed from a high point of view. For his pieces of fruit, Hulsdonck almost exclusively painted plums, grapes, peaches, oranges and lemons served in Chinese plates and bowls or in a basket. Since the boundaries between the different types of still lifes were not completely defined at this early time, he occasionally combined his fruit baskets and plates with a small bouquet of flowers. Just as typical of Hulsdonck as a representative of early still life painting is the use of wooden panels and copper plates as supports for his paintings. Jacob van Hulsdonck's paintings reveal the influence and knowledge of other still life painters who were also active at the same time. Vroom saw clear parallels to the works of Jan Soreau, whereas Bergström particularly emphasized the closeness to Balthasar van der Ast . Sybille Ebert-Schiffer still points convincingly to similarities with simultaneous still lifes by Frans Snyders, who worked in Antwerp . Jacob van Hulsdonck signed not only the complete signature IVHULSDONCK · FE but also only with the initials JvH , which should not be confused with those of Jan van den Hoecke .

Works

A selection of the works of Jacob van Hulsdonck.

title	Dating	Dimensions	technology	place	Remarks	swell
Still life with fruits and flowers	1597-1647	49 × 65 cm	Oil on oak panel	Art dealer David Koetser, Zurich	-	RKD
Still life with flowers	1597-1647	41 × 32 cm	Oil on copper plate	Art dealer David Koetser, Zurich	previously Jan Brueghel the Elder Ä. attributed	RKD
Basket with grapes, plums and peaches on a wooden table	1597-1647	55.6 x 72.4 cm	Oil on panel	Privately owned	signed lower left: .JVHULSDONCK. FE.	Sotheby's & RKD
Still life with fruits in a wan-li bowl on a wooden table	1597-1647	31.8 x 41.3 cm	Oil on panel	Privately owned	signed lower left: IVHULSDONCK.FE	Christie's & RKD
Still life with lemon, cut lemon and pieces of pomegranate on a table	1597-1647	17.8 x 23.5 cm	Oil on copper plate	Privately owned	signed lower right: IVHVLSDONCK.FE	RKD
Still life with a bowl made of Chinese porcelain filled with fruits on a table partly covered with a dark tablecloth	1597-1647	27.7 x 35.3 cm	Oil on panel	Privately owned	monogrammed lower left: IVH	RKD
Fruits in a basket, with two cloves, on a wooden serving board	1597-1647	61 × 92 cm	Oil on panel	Privately owned	-	RKD
Still life with fruit with oysters, clock and tin can	1597-1647	53 × 43.5 cm	Oil on canvas	Privately owned	signed lower left: HULSDONCK	RKD
Fruit basket	1597-1647	87.3 x 59.5 cm	Oil on panel	Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle	signed lower left	Bowes Museum
Fruit basket	1597-1647	49.8 x 64.8 cm	Oil on panel	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City	signed lower left: IVHVLSDON [C] K.FE	MET
Meal still life with ham, pork paws, strawberries, etc. a.	1597-1647	60 × 90 cm	-	Privately owned	signed lower left: IVHVLSDONCK. FE	Art dealer Gros & Delettrez
Tulips in a clay vase	circa 1610	55 × 41 cm	Oil on panel	Bredius Museum, The Hague	previously attributed to Jakob de Gheyn II	Museum Bredius & RKD
Still life with meat and fish	approx. 1610–1615 (altern. 1608–1617)	56 × 85 cm	Oil on panel	Art dealer Concha Barrios, Madrid	signed lower right: iVHVLSDONCK.FE	RKD
Snack picture (Breakfast-piece)	1614	51.5 × 85.5 cm	Oil on panel	Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle	-	Bowes Museum
Still life with herring, fruits, butter and bread	circa 1615	48.5 × 64.5 cm	Oil on panel	Rijksmuseum Twenthe , Enschede	signed lower left: IVHVLSDONCK. FE.	Rijksmuseum Twenthe & RKD
Still life with meat, fruits, bread and butter	approx. 1615 (altern. 1610–1620)	72.5 × 103.5 cm	Oil on panel	Art dealer Robert Noortman, Maastricht	signed lower right: IVH	RKD
Study of a Grape and Orange	1615-1647	17.6 x 23.4 cm	Oil on copper plate	Privately owned	bottom left: remains of the signature IVHV..DONCK fe	Christie's & RKD
Still life with lemons, oranges and a pomegranate	approx. 1620 (altern. 1620–1640)	40.6 x 48.3 cm	Oil on panel	J. Paul Getty Museum , Los Angeles	signed lower left: IVHVLSDONCK	J. Paul Getty Museum
Fruit basket	1620s	52 × 76 cm	Oil on panel	Privately owned	signed lower left: IVHVLSDONCK.FE.	Sotheby's & RKD
Still life with fruit with grapes and lemon	1625-1647	26.7 x 38.1 cm	Oil on panel	Privately owned	signed lower left: IVHVLSDONCK.FE	RKD
A basket with plums, cherries, flowers and an apple	1625-1647	41 × 64 cm	Oil on panel	Privately owned	bottom left: remnants of the signature & reverse: sign of the manufacturer of the panel (Antwerp)	RKD
Strawberries and a clove in a brittle porcelain bowl, with berries and cherries on the table	after approx. 1625 (altern. 1625–1647)	28.3 x 35.7 cm	Oil on copper plate	Privately owned	signed lower left: IVHVLSDONCK.FE	Sotheby's & RKD
Still life with fruits in a basket	approx. 1630 (altern. 1620–1640)	49.5 × 64 cm	Oil on panel	Privately owned	signed lower left: JvHVLSDONCK.FE.	RKD
Wicker basket with grapes, plums and peaches	after approx. 1630 (altern. 1630–1647)	41.9 x 55.3 cm	Oil on panel	Privately owned	-	RKD
Fruit basket	after approx. 1630 (altern. 1630–1647)	49.7 x 64 cm	Oil on panel	Privately owned	signed lower left: JVHVLSDONCK.FE	Christie's & RKD
Still life with fruits in a porcelain bowl	na approx. 1630 (altern. 1630–1647)	49.7 x 64 cm	Oil on panel	Privately owned	signed lower left: JVHVLSDONCK.FE	RKD
Still life of a porcelain bowl with fruits on a table partly covered with a dark tablecloth	approx. 1635 (altern. 1625–1645)	27.5 × 39 cm	Oil on panel	Privately owned	monogrammed lower left: IVH	Sotheby's & RKD
Plums and apricots in a wan-li bowl	1637-1647	34 x 47.6 cm	Oil on panel	Privately owned	signed lower right: IVHVLSDONCK.FE.	RKD
Fruit still life in a basket on a wooden table	approx. 1640 (altern. 1633–1647)	48 × 64 cm	Oil on panel	Privately owned	signed lower left: IV.HVLSDONCK.Fe.	RKD
Fruit basket	after approx. 1640 (altern. 1640–1657)	50 × 65 cm	Oil on panel	Privately owned	signed lower right: IVHVLSDONCK.FE	RKD

literature

reference books

• Erika Gemar-Költzsch: Dutch still life painter in the 17th century. Luca-Verlag, Lingen 1995, ISBN 3-923641-41-9 .
• Fred G. Meijer & Adriaan van der Willigen: A dictionary of Dutch and Flemish still-life painters working in oils. 1525-1725. Primavera Press, Leiden 2003, ISBN 90-74310-85-0 .
• Kurt Zoege von Manteuffel : Hulsdonck, Jacob van . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 18 : Hubatsch – Ingouf . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1925, p. 113 .
• Ulrike B. Wegener: Hulsdonck, Jacob van . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 75, de Gruyter, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-11-023180-9 , p. 454.

Monographs & exhibition catalogs

• Ingvar Bergström: Dutch still-life painting in the seventeenth century . Translated from the Swedish by Christina Hedström and Gerald Taylor. Faber & Faber, London 1956.
• Pamela Hibbs Decoteau: Clara Peeters: 1594 - ca.1640, and the development of still-life painting in northern Europe. Luca-Verlag, Lingen 1992, ISBN 3-923641-38-9 .
• Sybille Ebert-Schifferer: The history of the still life. Hirmer, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7774-7890-3 .
• Claus Grimm: Still life. The Dutch and German masters. Belser, Stuttgart (inter alia) 1988, ISBN 3-7630-1945-6 .
• Gerhard Langemeyer, Hans-Albert Peeters (Ed.): Still life in Europe. (Aust.kat .: Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History Münster & State Art Hall Baden-Baden 1980). Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe, Münster 1979.
• Walter A. Liedtke: Jacob van Hulsdonck . In: Flemish Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art . tape 1 . Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1984, ISBN 0-87099-356-9 , pp. 107-108 (English, books.google.de ).
• Norbert Schneider: Still life. Reality and symbolism of things; the still life painting of the early modern period. Taschen, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-8228-0398-7 .
• APA Vorenkamp: Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis van het Hollandsch stilleven in de 17 eeuw: proefschrift the Verkrijging van den graad van doctor in de letteren en wijsbegeerte aan de Rijks-Universiteit te Leiden. NV Leidsche Uitgeversmaatschappij, Leiden 1933.
• NRA Vroom: De Schilders Van Het Monochrome Banketje. Kosmos, Amsterdam 1945.

Web links

Commons : Jacob van Hulsdonck  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ ^{a b} Fred G. Meijer, Adriaan van der Willigen: A dictionary of Dutch and Flemish still-life painters working in oils. 1525-1725. (2003), p. 114.
2. ^ ^{A b c} Kurt Zoege von Manteuffel : Hulsdonck, Jacob van . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 18 : Hubatsch – Ingouf . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1925, p. 113 .
3. ^ ^{A b} Ingvar Bergström: Dutch still-life painting in the seventeenth century. (1956), p. 80.
4. ^ NRA Vroom: De Schilders Van Het Monochrome Banketje. (1945), p. 108.
5. ↑ The picture shows that, in contrast to Beert, Hulsdonck took note of what Frans Snyders was painting in the city at the same time: not only his individual Wan-Li-Kummen with strawberries [...], but also motifs such as full baskets with moving outlines or twigs and vines curling freely across the table, as well as fine vegetables such as artichokes and asparagus.
   Sybille Ebert-Schifferer: The history of the still life. (1998), p. 118.
6. ↑ I = Jacob, V = van, FE = fecit (Latin made / made).
7. ↑ The Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie lists 39 works in the style of Jacob van Hulsdonck → RKD  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . However, only those paintings by Hulsdonck are listed here, which are most likely by the hand of the master.