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POTTER, Paulus

POTTER, Paulus Four Bulls qgq oil painting on canvas
Four Bulls qgq
Painting ID::  8589
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POTTER, Paulus Four Bulls qgq oil painting on canvas



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  POTTER, Paulus
  Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1625-1654 Son of Pieter Potter. He was related through his mother, Aechtie Pouwels (d 1636), to the wealthy and powerful von Egmont and Semeyns families, who held important offices in Enkhuizen and at the court in The Hague. He worked in his father's studio in Amsterdam during the 1630s and, like him, painted history subjects that show the strong influence of Claes Moeyaert, with whom Paulus may also have studied. In the painting Abraham Returning from Canaan he adapted the landscape setting from an etching by Moses van Uyttenbroeck and the figures from works by Moeyaert from over ten years earlier. Significantly, however, he redistributed the numerous animals and figures that Moeyaert had aligned evenly across the frontal plane; Potter placed them to one side, permitting a view into the deep distance where other animals can be seen. Potter followed his father more than Moeyaert in searching for ways to integrate his figures with the landscape,
  Four Bulls qgq
  Oil on wood, 57,5 x 67,5 cm Galleria Sabauda, Turin

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