Children Playing with a Goat
Children Playing with a Goat | |
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Year | 18th century |
Medium | oil paint, canvas |
Dimensions | 67.9 cm (26.7 in) × 104.1 cm (41.0 in) |
Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Accession No. | 07.225.257 |
Identifiers | The Met object ID: 437949 |
Children Playing with a Goat is an 18th-century grisaille painting in the style of Jacob de Wit, known as a "witje". It is an oil painting on canvas depicting a relief of children playing with a goat after a relief by Francois Duquesnoy. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[1]
Description
Several paintings of this specific scene dating from the 17th century and 18th century have survived, and sometimes these were incorporated into other paintings. Though the paintings themselves have survived, the interpretation has not. In general, the popularity of
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Witjes by De Wit seem to "pop out" of the canvas
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A De Wit overdoor with window on the right
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Actual stucco in Herengracht 436
The reason this painting is important for the art historical record has therefore more to do with its subject than with its painterly qualities. Indeed, the subject is featured in another painting owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, namely their self-portrait by
Known versions by Dou:
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Self-Portrait, Uffizi
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The Violinist
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The Violin Player
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The Doctor
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A Poulterer's Shop
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The Grocer's Shop
The popularity of "witjes" as a decorative element, but also as a collector's item, caused De Wit to have many followers, including
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Children Playing with a Goat[5]
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Venus and Cupid
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The Triumph of Bacchus
Putti with a Goat theme
The subject remained popular through the 19th century, when it was used by the sculptor P.E. van den Bossche for a sculpted frieze above the doors of a building on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam.
References
- ^ "Children Playing with a Goat". Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- ^ Kennerschap en de ideale schoonheid, Lambert ten Kate over de tekeningen in zijn verzameling, by Hessel Miedema, Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2012
- ^ 283. Portrait of the Painter " in Hofstede de Groot, 1908
- Pieter Joseph Sauvagein the RKD
- RKD
- Cat. no. 221 in Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume I, by Walter Liedtke, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007