Description
Jacob van de KERCKHOVEN (Antwerp 1637 - Venice after 1712) Wild boar, wine, cardoon and basket of birds Basket of game, hare and birds Pair of canvases formerly oval, now rectangular 98 x 116 cm The first is signed on the basket A.L.Sig Jacobus Vanden Kerckhoven / Pittor Fiamengho / Venetia. Bibliography: C.G Marcus, Jacob van de Kerckhoven ou Giacomo da Castello, deux noms un seul artiste, Paris, 1972, reproduced. Born in Antwerp in 1636, Jacob van de Kerckhoven was apprenticed to Jan Fyt in 1649. He was mainly in Venice from 1660, where he changed his name to Giacomo da Castello, after the district of the city where he lived. His pictorial identity was built around his Flemish and Italian training, giving his still lifes an incomparable, powerful character. His paintings feature a personal vocabulary of animals, vegetables, fruit and other simple foods. In this way, he creates large compositions that can be described as ambitious, like those he saw in Antwerp workshops. The inscription on one of the paintings, above the basket, reads: "A. Mr. J. van. Kerhoven. Flemish painter. Venice".
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Jacob van de KERCKHOVEN (Antwerp 1637 - Venice after 1712) Wild boar, wine, cardoon and basket of birds Basket of game, hare and birds Pair of canvases formerly oval, now rectangular 98 x 116 cm The first is signed on the basket A.L.Sig Jacobus Vanden Kerckhoven / Pittor Fiamengho / Venetia. Bibliography: C.G Marcus, Jacob van de Kerckhoven ou Giacomo da Castello, deux noms un seul artiste, Paris, 1972, reproduced. Born in Antwerp in 1636, Jacob van de Kerckhoven was apprenticed to Jan Fyt in 1649. He was mainly in Venice from 1660, where he changed his name to Giacomo da Castello, after the district of the city where he lived. His pictorial identity was built around his Flemish and Italian training, giving his still lifes an incomparable, powerful character. His paintings feature a personal vocabulary of animals, vegetables, fruit and other simple foods. In this way, he creates large compositions that can be described as ambitious, like those he saw in Antwerp workshops. The inscription on one of the paintings, above the basket, reads: "A. Mr. J. van. Kerhoven. Flemish painter. Venice".
