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Jacob Van Huchtenberg
Dutch Bamboccianti Jacob van Huchtenburg Rome Market 1674 Oil canvas

1674 ca

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The Market in Piazza del Popolo is a work by the Flemish painter Jacob van Huchtenburg, born in Haarlem and present, in the early 1660s, in Rome, in close contact with his compatriot artists who had chosen the everyday setting genre, mostly, in the city streets, the so called “bambocciata” as the theme of their paintings. Jacob van Huchtenburg is a well-known artist, notable today for his various views of Rome with figures and he is clearly distinguishable from his younger brother Jan (Haarlem 1647-Amsterdam 1733), who paints-with a very different style-mostly battle scenes and resting horsemen, following his master Adam Frans van der Meulen. Jacob, born in Haarlem between 1640 and 1645 (most likely in 1644), had a very brief period of artistic activity: his known works are all dated between 1670 and 1675. Very little biographical information is available for him. While the 18th century Flemish biographer Arnold Houbraken, in his notes on Dutch painters, notes Adam Frans van der Meulen as Jan van Huchtenburgh’s teacher, of Jacob (or Jakob) he speaks instead as a student of Nicholas Berchem. Between 1662 and 1667 Jacob was in Rome and between 1667 and 1669 in Paris. In 1669 he was documented in Haarlem, where he was registered in the Guild of Painters.4 He died in Amsterdam on the 8th of January, 1675.5 All the dated paintings known today were painted in Holland, probably on the basis of sketches executed in Rome. The painting examined here represents a Market scene in Piazza del Popolo and is dated to the early 1670s, maybe 1674 like the work at the Kassel museum, similar from the point of view of style and dimensions. The unique view of the square is taken from the ancient Via Paolina, now called Via del Babuino, and on the right we can see the long ring wall and one of the two entrance gates to the Garden of the Augustinians of Santa Maria del Popolo which spread over the slopes of the Pincian hill. The square is depicted as it was before its current design, that of Giuseppe Valadier realized between the end of the 18th and the first years of the following century. In the background is the Porta Flaminia, later called Porta del Popolo, the entrance to Rome from the via Flaminia. On the top is the “fastigio chigiano” (Chigi pediment) commemorating the works commissioned by Pope Alexander VII Chigi (1655-1667) from Gian Lorenzo Bernini on the occasion and in honor of the arrival in Rome of the abdicating queen, Christina of Sweden (Stockholm 1626-Rome 1689), daughter of Gustavo Adolfo, on the 23rd of December 1655. At the center of the square is the obelisk of Seti I, erected by Domenico Fontana in 1589 at the will of Sisto V (1585-1590) and, nearby, on the left, the fountain, designed by Giacomo della Porta, which Pope Gregory XIII (1572-1585) placed in the middle of the square, prior to the placement of the obelisk, which now is found in Nicosia Square. On the left, at the top, one can glimpse the silhouette, quite simplified, of a villa, probably from the 16th century, drafted by Raphael, Villa Madama, situated on the slopes of Monte Mario. The entire foreground of the painting is occupied by the large figures of merchants intent on selling their products, the figures of friars and beggars, these latter asking for charity, of children playing and of animals, cows and calves, brought there to be sold. The building on the left and the fountain nearby are a product of the artist’s invention: they open the scene on the left and create an equilibrium with the right side of the composition closed in by the ring wall of the garden of the Augustinian monks. Jacob van Huchtenburgh employed the same expedient, the use, for the fifth time, of the building with a fountain nearby on the left of the composition, also in the market in Piazza Colonna of the Kassel museum of 1674. As such, at the center of the square we find the Colonna Antonina which in the Piazza del Popolo is substituted by the obelisk which is the center of the square and, at the same time, the center of the painted scene. A direct reference point for the scenes painted in the 1670s by Jacob van Huchtenburgh is the most well-known piece of Johannes Lingelbach (Frankfurt 1622-Amsterdam 1674), naturalized Dutch of German origin, who, in Rome during the second half of the 1640s, often painted, in the course of his activity, market scenes set in the most celebrated square of Rome, Piazza del Popolo which hosted beggars and visitors from the north and center of Italy arriving on the via Flaminia. One of the most famous versions of Lingelbach is the Piazza del Popolo signed and dated 1664 housed at the Academy of Vienna.11 The painting of Jacob van Huchtenburgh with the Market in the Piazza del Popolo has been relined. Expertise by doctor Laura Laureati
  • Creator:
    Jacob Van Huchtenberg (1640 - 1675)
  • Creation Year:
    1674 ca
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 41.73 in (106 cm)Width: 47.52 in (120.71 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Period:
    1670-1679
  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Florence, IT
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1240210334482
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