A Picture Gallery with Fashionable Visitors
Hieronymus Janssens (Antwerp 1624 - Antwerp 1693)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1660 - 1669
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
819 x 1175 mm (32 ¼ x 46 ¼ in)
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Uppark House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 138300
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Picture Gallery with Fashionable Visitors, by Hieronymus Janssens (Antwerp 1624 - Antwerp1693), 1660s. An imaginary gallery, the walls of which are covered with pictures, and in which a group of three figures is admiring a canvas of the Last Judgement, supported by an easel in the foreground; a table by a window at the left has on it pieces of sculpture, a globe, and other objects. By the 1660s, the probable date of this picture, David Teniers the Younger had established a fashion for realistic descriptions of such picture galleries. Janssens harks back to an earlier Flemish tradition of more allegorical depictions; the contrast between the precious objects on the table at the left and the 'Last Judgement' in the foreground points to the ultimate vanity of early pleasures. The picture hanging at the right of the top register is similar to the Staghunt by Snyders in the Brussels Museum.
Provenance
Purchased by the National Trust from the Trustees of the late R.J. Meade-Fetherstonhaugh, Esq. with the help of a grant from the Purchase Grant Fund, 1976.
Credit line
Uppark, The Fetherstonhaugh Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Hieronymus Janssens (Antwerp 1624 - Antwerp 1693) , artist
References
Robels, 1989: Hella Robels, Frans Snyders: Stilleben- und Tiermaler 1579-1657, Munich 1989, p. 335