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Here are all the paintings of MOEYAERT, Claes Cornelisz. 01
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Painting |
Oil Pantings, Sorted from A to Z |
Painting Description |
| 8231 |
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Moses Ordering the Slaughter of the Midianitic ag |
1650
Oil on canvas
Private collection |
| 8232 |
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Triumph of Bacchus ga |
1624
Oil on canvas
Mauritshuis, The Hague |
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| MOEYAERT, Claes Cornelisz.
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| Dutch painter (b. 1590/91, Durgerdam, d. 1655, Durgerdam)
Dutch painter, etcher and draughtsman. He was the son of an aristocratic Catholic Amsterdam merchant and moved to the city with his family in 1605. He was the most prolific of the history painters now called the PRE-REMBRANDTISTS, whose representations of biblical and mythological narratives, as well as of more recent secular history, give particular emphasis to dramatic and psychological effects. After working initially as a draughtsman and etcher, Moeyaert soon made his name as a painter. Landscapes with animals feature prominently in both his etchings and his paintings. At first he followed the lead of Adam Elsheimer, then of fellow Pre-Rembrandtists Pieter Lastman and Jan and Jacob Pynas, eventually, in the mid-1630s,
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