Detail View: Visual Resources Teaching Collection: African Man
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Image Record ID:
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aahi0010679
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Work Title (display):
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African Man
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Image Title:
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full view
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Work Dates (display):
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ca. 1665
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Work Dates type:
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creation
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Image Date (display):
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2013-02-01
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Work Creator (display):
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Albert Eckhout (Dutch, ca. 1610-1666)
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Work Creator gender:
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male
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Work Creator notes (display):
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Dutch painter and draughtsman. Eckhout and Frans Post were the two most important artists who travelled to Brazil in 1637 in the entourage of the newly appointed governor-general, Johan Maurits, Count of Nassau-Siegen (see Nassau, (1)), on whose initiative Eckhout was assigned to paint people, plants and animals as part of a scientific study of the country. Eckhout's studies are characterized by an objectivity that is sober, direct and without artistic embellishment. In 1644 Johan Maurits, nicknamed 'the Brazilian', returned to the Netherlands where he published the collected scientific material as Historia naturalis Brasíliae (1648). He also used this material as a diplomatic tool; in 1654 he presented Frederick III of Denmark with a series of room decorations that Eckhout had partially painted in Brazil between 1641 and 1643. This series comprised nine large portraits of aboriginal Indians, twelve still-lifes with Brazilian fruit and three portraits of Congolese envoys (Copenhagen, Stat. Mus. Kst). The only painting by Eckhout in a Dutch public collection, Two Brazilian Turtles (The Hague, Mauritshuis), was probably one of the works of art sold by Johan Maurits in 1652 to Frederick William, the Great Elector. This group included 800 chalk, oil and watercolour drawings of fish, reptiles, birds, insects, mammals, Indians, mulattos, fruits and plants, most of them presumably by Eckhout. They were collected into seven books, the Libri picturati, of which four volumes containing 400 oil sketches were entitled Theatrum rerum naturalium Brasíliae (Kraków, Jagiellonian U. Lib.). In 1679 Maurits gave Louis XIV of France a present of eight paintings of Indians and animals in imaginary landscapes with still-lifes of Brazilian and African fruits and plants painted by Eckhout after his return to the Netherlands. In 1668 Maximilian van der Gucht of The Hague made a series of tapestries after these paintings for the Great Elector, and a second series, the 'Tenture des Indes', was woven in 1687 by the French firm later known as Manufacture Royale des Gobelins (Paris, Mobilier N.). The paintings are no longer extant, but the cartoons for the tapestries were used until the 18th century. The many surviving tapestry series woven after 'Les anciennes Indes' (e.g. Amsterdam, Rijksmus.; Valletta, Pal. Grand Masters) testify to the popularity of these representations. At Johan Maurits's recommendation, Eckhout entered the service of John-George I, Prince-Elector of Saxony, in 1653, and he remained in Dresden for the next ten years. His most important commission was for the ceiling decorations in the Hofflössnitz hunting lodge, for which he used his Brazilian studies or drew from memory. During this period he also made a series of large oil paintings of exotic, mainly Asiatic peoples (Schwedt, Schloss). In 1663 he returned to Groningen, where he was awarded citizenship (B. P. J. Broos. "Eckhout, Albert." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. 14 Apr. 2009
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Work Style Period:
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17th century
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Work Subject:
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Europe
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Work Subject:
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male
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Work Subject:
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art history
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Work Subject:
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Africa (continent)
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Work Subject:
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Africans
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Work Subject:
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shells
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Work Subject:
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figures
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Work Subject:
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classicism
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Work Subject:
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exoticism
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Work Subject:
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weapons
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Work Worktype:
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oil paintings
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Work Worktype:
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paintings (visual works)
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Work Category (VRC classification):
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paintings
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Work Material and Technique (display):
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oil on canvas
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Work Measurements (display):
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264 cm (H) x 162 cm (W)
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Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
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National Museum of Denmark
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Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
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repository
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Work Location (Geographic) name:
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Copenhagen, Denmark
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Image Source Reproduction citation:
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Levenson, Jay A. Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th & 17th Centuries : 15 July-11 October 2009. [Lisbon]: Museu Nacional De Arte Antiga, 2009. Print.
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Image Source Reproduction refid:
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9789727763863
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Image Source Reproduction page number:
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195
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Image Source Reproduction plate-figure number:
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89
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Image Source Reproduction refid type:
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ISBN
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Image Rights (display):
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unknown
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Image Rights fair use checklist:
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1) use of this image is for education and educational research; 2) access is restricted to University of Colorado and Auraria Higher Education Center communities; 3) the original photographer is credited if known; 4) the image is published; 5) the amount of the work in relation to the whole is needed for education or educational research; 6) the number of derivatives is the minimum required for education or educational research; 7) the image has not been found to be reasonably available for sale; 8) duplication of the image does not violate preexisting contracts.
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Work Rights (display):
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public domain
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Holding Institution:
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University of Colorado at Boulder
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Collection:
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Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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Collection info and contact:
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For information about this collection, see
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