Johan le Ducq
Johan le Ducq , occasionally Jan Ducq , (* around 1629 ; † 1676 in The Hague ) was a Dutch painter, draftsman and etcher; as well as art dealer and soldier.
Life
Johan le Ducq has long been confused with Jacob Duck . Van Gool mentions an apprenticeship with Paulus Potter , who lived in The Hague from 1649 to 1652. Ducq was first mentioned as a painter in 1655 in connection with a brawl in which Hague painter Olivier Hasenbaert was also involved. In 1656 Ducq was a founding member of the “ Confrérie Pictura ” guild split, but in 1658 refused to pay his contribution. In that year he had made a painting with a shepherdess and cows for the "Kamer van Pictura" at an estimated price of 60 guilders, which he exchanged on April 29, 1662 with knowledge of the regents for a landscape with a rider.
On January 2, 1659, he married Geertruyt Sybille Kerckhoff in The Hague, followed in 1663 by his marriage to Yda Persijn. On December 3, 1660 Johan le Ducq joined the Hague painters' guild . The fee of 18 guilders speaks against The Hague as Ducq's place of birth, because only 12 guilders were common for guild members born there. On June 17, 1662 Ducq received permission to sell his copper plates and engravings in the Confrerie. In 1665 he rented a house in The Hague. The engraving on a trophy of the Confrerie Pictura by Jonas Gutsche (Rotterdam, BvB) shows Ducq in 1670 as the third and in 1671 as the first "Hooftman" of the artist association.
Ducq then ended his artistic work and joined the Army of the States General , was mentioned as an ensign in May 1672 and died four years later as a captain of the wounds he had sustained in a fight with a companion for money.
reception
Ducq preferred to paint close-up domestic animals in front of Italian landscapes. He achieved particular mastery in portrayals of dogs, where he excellently characterized the different coat structure and color of the greyhounds and hunting dogs. He owes his preference for dog and cattle motifs to his teacher Paulus Potter , while the stylistic execution is reminiscent of Karel Dujardin , who also lives in The Hague , but is more reserved in the Italianization and less detailed in the formulation of the landscape.
The combined presentation of hunting dogs and prey and the stage-like view of the landscape foreground determine the peripheral still life character of the dog pictures ( hunting still life with dogs in front of the landscape ). The special quality of these works seems to have been obvious to contemporaries and artist colleagues. Several works were offered for sale at the Hague art dealer Cornelis de Putter and according to a document from 1671, the dogs in a painting by the Hague portrait painter Sijmen Roodt are said to have come from Ducq. Ducq mostly populates the wide, hilly landscapes with cows, sheep and shepherds.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ducq, Johan le |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ducq, Jan; Ducq, Jean le; Le Ducq, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1629 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1676 |
| Place of death | The Hague , Holland , Republic of the Seven United Netherlands |