The Painter and The Buyer
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Artist | Pieter Bruegel the Elder |
Year | 1565 |
Type | Pen and ink on brown paper |
Dimensions | 25.5 cm × 25.1 cm (10.0 in × 9.9 in) |
Location | Albertina, Vienna |
The Painter and The Buyer is a 1565 pen and ink on brown paper painting by Flemish artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The alternative title is The Artist and The Connoisseur.
The painter is thought to be a self-portrait of Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
Content
The artist holds a paint brush in his right hand, on the left past the viewer, presumably to the object he paints. A second man looks over his shoulder at the resulting picture. This work is for the viewer, however, out of panel. Bruegel is limited entirely to the presentation of two dissimilar men: the painter drawn in detail with disheveled hair, bushy eyebrows and unkempt beard, and the more vague outline reproduced viewer behind him with pince-nez, long nose and mouth slightly open.[1]
Interpretation
In the Middle Ages, artists were fixed in a craft tradition supported by clients such as church, aristocracy and later the bourgeoisie. The depiction of painter and buyer or artist and connoisseur already reflects the new humanistic concept of art, which makes the painter dependent on the subjective judgement of a connoisseur.[1] According to Hans Ost there is an "ignorant observer" who "with his mouth stupidly open, laboriously peers through his glasses over the artist's shoulder. This is the connoisseur and amateur, as we later find him in the circle of Roman antiquarians around Philipp von Stosch"[2]
The identity of the painter, often assumed to be a self-portrait of Bruegel, is uncertain; it is also conceivable that he is a portrait of Hieronymus Bosch.[3]
See also
References
- ^ a b Christian Vöhringer: Pieter Bruegel. 1525/30 – 1569, h.f.ullmann 2007 ISBN 978-3-8331-3852-2 S. 9
- ^ Hans Ost: Das Komische an der Kunstwissenschaft in: Das Komische in der Kunst Hg. Roland Kanz, Böhlau Verlag 2007 ISBN 978-3-412-07206-3 S. 6. f
- ^ Rose-Marie und Rainer Hagen: Pieter Bruegel d. Ä. um 1525 – 1569. Bauern, Narren und Dämonen, Taschen Verlag 1999 ISBN 3-8228-6590-7 S. 21 f.
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