Jan Cornelisz van Loenen

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Jan Cornelisz van Loenen (born around 1590; buried March 13, 1643 ) was a 17th century Dutch painter. Variants of his name are z. B. Jean de Laune, Jean de Lone, Jean de Losne, Johan van Loenen.

Life

Oil painting of the boy Willem van der Muelen at the age of three (1634), Landesmuseum Hannover
Portrait of a two-year-old girl from the Rainier family, 1636, Hallwylska Museum, Stockholm

Van Loenen came from Utrecht and worked in France and Italy in 1613 with the Dutch painter Jan Rutgersz Van Nieuwael. Both were in Lyon in 1619 and then in Grenoble (altarpiece for the church of Sainte-Claire in Grenoble). In 1626, together with Antoine Schanart and Antoine van Halder, they carried out the interior decoration of the castle of Vizille (by François de Bonne , Duke of Lesdiguières). Van Loenen must have been back in Utrecht in 1634 (dated and signed child portrait). The only documents found were a will from February 21, 1643, in which he left everything to the wife Petronella van Quirijnen of his friend Van Nieuwael. He had no offspring of his own.

He is one of the Utrecht Caravaggists .

For example, a painting by Willem van der Muelen (1631–1690) at the age of three (formerly regarded as a picture of a girl because the boy is depicted in a gray dress) from 1634 comes from him. The quality of the picture, that is was owned by the family in Utrecht until it was sold to the Lower Saxony State Museum in 2013, it attracted the attention of Hofstede de Groot, for example, at a painting exhibition in Utrecht in 1894 . Only a few other pictures are known of Loenen, including some portraits of children. However, it has been suggested that some of his pictures were later wrongly ascribed to others. Since the van der Muelen family was a high-ranking patrician family (fled Antwerp in 1585, since 1608 in Utrecht and became rich as merchants in the West African trade, among other things), he must have been in high regard at the time.

Pictures in Glasgow (portrait of a young girl, Stirling Maxwell Collection, Pollok House) and Stockholm (portrait of a two-year-old girl, Hallwylska Palace and Museum) have been attributed to him. There is also a portrait of a boy in the Musée de Soissons (1637) and a picture of a child and other family members in Zuylen Castle near Utrecht from 1639.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Begraafinschrijving Johan van Loenen, 13-3-1643 hetutrechtsarchief.nl.
  2. ↑ Cornelis Hofstede de Groot: Johan Cornelisz van Loenen . In: Masterpieces of portrait painting at the exhibition in The Hague, 1903 . F. Bruckmann, Munich 1903, p. 29 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive - Attribution).
  3. ↑ Edmond Maignien: Jean de Loenen. In: Les Artistes grenoblois; architectes, armuriers, brodeurs, graveurs, musiciens, orfèvres, peintres, sculpteurs, tapisiers, tourneurs, etc. Drevet, Grenoble 1887, p. 222 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  4. ^ The exhibition of old pictures in Utrecht . In: Kunstchronik: Weekly for art and applied arts . New series 6, issue 5, 1895, col. 71 , doi : 10.11588 / diglit.5782.13 .
  5. ↑ New masterpiece for the Landesgalerie hannover.de (Willem van der Muelen at the age of three).
personal data
SURNAME Loenen, Jan Cornelisz van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loenen, Johan Cornelisz van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH around 1590
PLACE OF BIRTH Utrecht
DATE OF DEATH buried March 13, 1643
Place of death Utrecht