Jacques de Claeuw

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Jacques Adolphsz de Claeuw (* May 1623 in Dordrecht , † probably after November 7, 1694 in Leiden ) was a Dutch Baroque painter .

Name variants: Jacques de Claeu , Jacques de Claew, Jacques de Clauw , Jacques Grief , Jacobus de Grieff , Jacques de Grieff , Jacobus de Klau , Jacobus de Claew

Claeuw was the father of the painter Adriaen de Gryff and in 1642 co-founder of the painters' guild in Dordrecht. Nothing is known about his origins and training. Stylistically, his early works are close to the pictures of Abraham van Beijeren , so that training in his vicinity seems possible. Around 1646 he must have moved to The Hague , where he was accepted into the local painters' guild on July 15 of the same year. There he also became a member of the shooting guild. In April 1646, 25 pictures he had painted were offered at an auction held in the city, presumably because of financial difficulties, and sold at prices between 3 and 10 guilders . On April 11, 1649, his first marriage was Maria van Goyen, a daughter of the landscape painter Jan van Goyen . Soon after the wedding, he must have run into acute financial difficulties again, since in 1651 several respected citizens, including his father-in-law, gave a guarantee for him. In the same year he moved to Leiden, where he joined the local painters' guild on September 23. In 1662 his first wife died, with whom he had eight children. On September 7, 1663 he married Maria de Cherepy. Claeuw was mentioned for the last time as a member of the Leiden Rifle Guild in 1666. In the same year he moved to Zeeland , where he probably spent the following years. After among other Haerlem A ° signed and in 1687 "dated Vanitas " Judging, he could have stayed in the same year in Haarlem. Probably around 1689, but no later than 1694, he can be traced back to Leiden, where he was last documented on November 7th as a witness of a child baptism by his son Adriaen. He probably died shortly afterwards.

Claeuw seems to have mainly painted still lifes and a few depictions of animals. In his early works he was mainly based on the dark, almost monochrome color scheme of Abraham van Beijeren. In his later years he remained true to van Beijeren's style, but became bolder in his coloring and painted with stronger, brightly colored strokes. In addition to numerous vanitas still lifes, he also painted a number of fruit and hunting still lifes as well as pieces of flowers. Some of the genre-like pictures ascribed to him are probably early works by his son Adriaen or joint works by the two artists.

Works (selection)

  • Aachen, Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum
    • Vanitas still life.
  • Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum
    • Vanitas still life. 1650
  • Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof
    • Still life with a flower vase, globe and Cupid statuette. (Loan from the Dutch government)
  • Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
    • Still life with painting utensil, violin and globe.
  • Berlin, Grunewald Hunting Lodge
    • Goshawk, beating a chicken. around 1650
  • Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum
    • Vanitas still life with violin.
    • Pharmacy still life. (attributed)
  • Coburg, Veste Coburg
    • Vanitas Still Life, 1651
  • Karlsruhe, State Art Gallery
    • Vanitas still life. around 1679
  • Leipzig, Museum of Fine Arts
    • Vanitas still life.
  • Schwerin, State Museum
    • Still life with grapes, peeled lemons and roses. around 1650 (attributed)
  • Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
    • Still life with a violin.
  • Whereabouts unknown
    • Vanitas still life. 1645 (from 2000 to at least 2005 in the London art trade Johnny Van Haeften)
    • Still life with a roman and peeled lemon. 1648 (privately owned by Sweden until at least 1974)
    • Flower bouquet in glass vase. around 1650 (sold on October 14, 1997 at Dorotheum in Vienna)
    • Bouquet of flowers in a glass vase. 1651 (sold at Sotheby's in London on July 3, 1996)
    • Bouquet of flowers in a glass vase. around 1665 (sold at Christie's in London on April 15, 1992)
    • Vanitas still life. 1689 (sold on June 10, 1997 at Drouot Montaigne in Paris)
    • Still life with romans, grapes and lemons. (from April 1979 to at least September / October 1980 in the Solingen art trade, Galerie Müllenmeister)
    • Still life with romans, fruits, bread, oysters and peeled lemon. (from 1990 to at least March 1992 in the London art dealer Peter Tillou)
    • Vanitas still life. (sold at Sotheby's in New York on January 28, 1998)
    • Vanitas Still Life with Portrait of Anthony van Dyck. (sold at Sotheby's in London on October 29, 1998)
    • Bouquet of flowers in glass vase. (until at least March 1999 in the New York art dealer Daphne Alazraki)
    • Bouquet of flowers in a glass vase. (sold at Bonhams in London on July 5, 2006)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Preferred spelling at the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie = Jacques de Claeuw.
  2. ^ Ernst Wilhelm Moes : Claeuw, Jacques Grief, called de Claeuw . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 7 : Cioffi – Cousyns . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 38–39 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Claeuw, Jacques de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Claeu, Jacques de; Claew, Jacques de; Clauw, Jacques de; Grief, Jacques; Grieff, Jacobus de; Grieff, Jacques de; Klau, Jacobus de; Claew, Jacobus de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 1623
PLACE OF BIRTH Dordrecht
DATE OF DEATH after November 7, 1694
Place of death Suffer