Roelant Savery: The poet crowned by two apes at the feast of the animals
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Artist |
Workshop of Roelant Savery
(1576–1639) |
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Alternative names |
Roelant Saverij, Roeland Savery, Roeland Maertensz. Savery, Roelandt Savery, Roelandt Savry |
Description |
Flemish painter, drawer, printmaker and court painter |
Date of birth/death |
1576 |
25 February 1639 (buried) |
Location of birth/death |
Kortrijk |
Utrecht |
Work period |
from 1587 until 1639 date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1587-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1639-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
Work location |
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Authority file |
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artist QS:P170,Q4233718,P1774,Q142710 |
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Title |
The poet crowned by two apes at the feast of the animals label QS:Len,"The Poet Crowned by two Apes at the Feast of the Animals"
label QS:Lnl,"De dichter op het feest der dieren gekroond door twee apen" |
Object type |
painting |
Genre |
landscape painting |
Description |
The poet, possibly Orpheus, at the feast of the animals being crowned with a laurel wreath by two apes. They are surrounded by a large number of animals. To the right some animals are dancing in a circle. To the left a bear is playing the bagpipe while other animals are playing the flute. Also: a deer, horse, leopard, ibex, lion, dog, wild boar, fox, cat, mouse, rat, frog, ox, camel, cossowary, ostrich, bat, rabbit, owl, grasshopper, heron, eagle, falcon, bird of paradise, snake, armadillo, parrot and other animals. |
Date |
1623 date QS:P571,+1623-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
Dimensions |
height: 56.5 cm (22.2 in); width: 82 cm (32.2 in) dimensions QS:P2048,56.5U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,82U174728 |
Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q892727 |
Accession number |
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Place of creation |
Utrecht (?) |
Object history |
by 1875 date QS:P,+1875-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1875-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : L. Hamming
1875: purchased by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Inventory number SK-A-366, from L. Hamming for ƒ 350 (as Roelant Savery, 1616)
1999: lent to the Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
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Exhibition history |
Zeldzame meesters, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1941, cat. no. 174.
Herdenking Roeland Savery. Kortrijk 1576 - Utrecht 1639, Stedelijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Kortrijk, 25 April 1976–7 June 1976, cat. no. 17, as Roelant Savery, De dichter op het feest der dieren.
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Inscriptions |
Signature and date bottom right:
·ROELAND· / SAVERY / [FE] 16[23]
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References |
Anonymous (1903) Catalogus der Schilderijen miniaturen, pastels, omlijste teekeningen, enz. in het Rijks-Museum te Amsterdam, Amsterdam: Boek- en kunstdrukkerij v/h Roeloffzen-Hübner en Van Santen, p. 240, cat. no. 2136, as Roelant Savery, De Dichter op het Feest der Dieren gekroond.
Pieter J. J. van Thiel et al. (1976) All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Maarssen: Gary Schwartz, ISBN 90-6179-010-7, p. 500, cat. no. A 366, as Roelant Savery, The poet crowned by two apes at the feast of the animals.
Jonathan Bikker (ed.; 2007) Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. Volume I - Artists born between 1570 and 1600, Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, Nieuw Amsterdam, [New Haven]: Yale University Press, ISBN 9789086890279, p. 351, cat. no. 268, as Workshop of Roelant Savery, The poet crowned by two apes at the feast of the animals, 1623.
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam online catalogue, as Workshop of Roelant Savery, The poet crowned by two apes at the feast of the animals, 1623.
RKDimages, Art-work number 6125, as Attributed to Roelant Savery or Attributed to Hans Savery (II), De dichter op het feest der dieren gekroond door twee apen, 1623 |
Source/Photographer |
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