Plaquette met voorstelling van Pan en Syrinx

Plaquette met voorstelling van Pan en Syrinx

Paulus van Vianen made this plaquettes and the one with a scene from Diana and Actaeon (inv.nr. 14745) at the height of his career. In 1603 he started work for the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. During the two previous years he had worked in Salzburg at the court of Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau. In this period, landscapes became an important inspiration. The idealized figures in the mythological scenes on these plaquettes have also been placed in realistic landscapes. This piece from 1613 shows the metamorphosis of nymph Syrinx. Pursued by the god Pan, she transforms into rustling reed. Van Vianen put great variation into the positions of the bodies, as to demonstrate the virtuosity of his craftsmanship The gilding is not original and was most likely applied in the 19th century.

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Paulus van Vianen made this plaquettes and the one with a scene from Diana and Actaeon (inv.nr. 14745) at the height of his career. In 1603 he started work for the Emperor Rudolf II in Prague. During the two previous years he had worked in Salzburg at the court of Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau. In this period, landscapes became an important inspiration. The idealized figures in the mythological scenes on these plaquettes have also been placed in realistic landscapes. This piece from 1613 shows the metamorphosis of nymph Syrinx. Pursued by the god Pan, she transforms into rustling reed. Van Vianen put great variation into the positions of the bodies, as to demonstrate the virtuosity of his craftsmanship The gilding is not original and was most likely applied in the 19th century.

Now in the museum in Collectie Centraal

Title

Plaquette met voorstelling van Pan en Syrinx

Artist

Paulus van Vianen (Utrecht 1570 ca. - 1613 Praag)

Dating

1613

Material and technique

zilver, vergulding

Object number

14746

Object type

plaquette

Acquisition

aankoop met steun van Vereniging Rembrandt 1965

Dimensions

hoogte 8.3 cm

breedte 11.2 cm

gewicht 59 gr

gehalte

Inscriptions and markings

  • signatuur en datering m.o. : PV // 1613

More of the same motif

historie, mythologie, Ovidius, Metamorfosen, Pan en Syrinx

Remarks

pendant van inv. nr. 14745

Documentation

  • Adam, Paulus en Christiaen van Vianen; leven en werk, A.L. den Blaauwen, (Leiden, 1957), p. 25

  • Collection de feu M.- W.J.R. Dreesmann Amsterdam. Tableaux, dessins, eaux-fortes, antiquités, (Amsterdam, 1960-03-22/25), cat. nr. 104, p. 29

  • De Utrechtse Parade 1495-1995 : van Van Scorel tot Rietveld en Koch, red. Renger de Bruin, Jos de Meyere, Suzanne de Sitter. teksten Hanneke Adriaans, Marja Bosma, Renger de Bruin, Roman Koot, Jos de Meyere, Ida van Zijl, (Utrecht, 1994), p. 230, afb. 119

Exhibitions

  • Collectie Centraal, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2023

  • De wereld van Utrecht. Topstukken uit vijf collecties, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2016 - 2022

  • Dit is het Centraal Museum! Topstukken uit de vijf collecties, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 2012 - 2015

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https://hdl.handle.net/21.12130/collect.3AE23B09-4A8B-4A9D-B6C2-577A81DA6DF0

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