Matthys naive

Bean King Festival (1706).

Matthys Naiveu (baptized April 16, 1647 in Leiden ; † around 1721 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch painter.

Matthys Naiveu created genre pictures , portraits , religious pictures and still lifes . The knowledge of Naiveu is essentially based on the information provided by Arnold Houbraken . After that he was a student of Abraham Toorenvliet and then of Gerard Dou . In 1671 he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in Leiden. In 1677 he was Hoofdman (chairman) of his hometown. In the same year he moved to Amsterdam. On March 9, 1696, he became a citizen of Amsterdam.

Works

• Amsterdam Museum (Amsterdams Historisch Museum)
  • Amsterdam street scene, 1696
  • Genre scene with quacks, 1696
  • Genre scene with a shoemaker.
• Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
  • Saint Jerome, 1679
  • Outdoor theater performance.
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • A girl and a boy are playing with soap bubbles.
• Statens Museum for Kunst , Copenhagen
  • Saint Jerome.
• Museum De Lakenhal (Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal), Leiden
  • Visit to kindergarten, 1700
  • Visit to the cloth merchant, 1709
• Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York
  • The newborn child, 1675
• Germanisches Nationalmuseum , Nuremberg
  • The Horned Father, after 1700
• Musée du Louvre , Paris
  • Portrait of a Young Woman with a Dog, 1678
• Ambtswoning Gouverneur van de Nederlandse Antillen, Willemstad (Curaçao)
  • Young woman with a parrot, 1715
• Whereabouts unknown
  • Self-Portrait in a Window, 1670 (auctioned 11 January 1996 at Sotheby's in London)
  • Man Smoking in a Courtyard, 1690 (auctioned April 24, 1995 at Sotheby's in New York)
  • Young woman in the window pours out wine, around 1715 (auctioned on March 24, 2004 at Dorotheum in Vienna)
  • Young woman in the window with fruits and oysters. (auctioned on October 18, 1995 at Sotheby's in London)
  • Interior with a noble woman and a maid combing a child's hair. (auctioned on January 30, 1997 at Sotheby's in New York)
  • Elegant couple served by servants. (auctioned on July 1, 1997 at Phillips Son & Neale in London)
  • Still life with jug, lemons and oysters. (auctioned on July 3, 1997 at Christie's in London)
  • The rapture of St. Anthony. (auctioned on June 21, 1999 at Drouot Richelieu in Paris)
  • Interior with posh company. (auctioned on October 4, 2000 at Dorotheum in Vienna)
  • Still life with hanging grapes and pomegranate.
  • Portrait of a Man. (auctioned on June 11, 2003 at Dorotheum in Vienna)

Web links

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