Jacob Matthias
W E Y E R

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WEYER, JACOB MATTHIAS
Hamburg um 1620 - um 1670 Hamburg

Ausgebildet in Haarlem unter dem Einfluss von Ph. Wouwerman und Jacob de Wet. Seit 08.08.1648 Amtsmaler in Hamburg, wo er bis zu seinem Tode lebte. Bilder in Herzog-Anton-Ulrich Museum Braunschweig (Kriegslager), in der Kunsthalle Hamburg (Überfall im Lager) gezeichnet 1645 Weyer. Weitete Bilder in der Schweriner Galerie, Mus. Hermannstadt

Maße: Gerahmt: 74 x 52, das Bild selbst 60 x 38,5 auf Holz gemalt. Szene aus dem 30-jährigen Krieg (kein Blut).

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Gemälde

WEYER, JACOB MATTHIAS
Hamburg um 1620 - um 1670 Hamburg

Gemälde

WEYER, JACOB MATTHIAS
Hamburg um 1620 - um 1670 Hamburg

The Rape of Proserpina
Pen and brown ink, washes over black chalk.
Size of paper: 18.6 x 31.8 cm.
On an 18th century mount.

The artist is mainly noted for his battle and genre scenes. Most of his well known drawings are done in red chalk in a lively manner. It is much more rare to find fully worked out drawings such as the present example. Two other drawings in the same format are to be found in a private collection in southwestern Germany (Zeichnungen Alter Meister aus Deutschem Privatbesitz, exh. cat. Hamburger Kunsthalle 1965, p. 22, cat. no. 80, 81 with ill.). Also see a similiar drawing in the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett (KdZ 5512).

Pluto, god of the underworld abducts Proserpina to make her his wife. The nymph Cyane tries to save her. This motif from Ovid's Metamorphoses was a highly favoured subject in the canon of baroque imagery.

Gemälde

WEYER, JACOB MATTHIAS
Hamburg um 1620 - um 1670 Hamburg

Reitergefecht. Pinsel in Grau, grau laviert, weiß gehöht, auf blauem Papier. 15,2 x 22,7 cm