Old Man at the Window
1653 | Samuel van Hoogstraten
A pupil of Rembrandt, Hoogstraten wrote a treatise on art theory in which he explored the relationship between painting technique and spatial illusion. His speciality was trompe l’oeil, paintings that “deceive the eye” as does this one. An old man is gazing from a meticulously painted window with a stone frame. According to a tradition that is now presumed to be mistaken, the man is Rabbi Yom Tov Lipmann Heller (1579– 1654), who succeeded in gaining permission for Jews to live in Vienna’s Leopoldstadt district. The picture was painted while Hoogstratens stay in Vienna.
A pupil of Rembrandt, Hoogstraten wrote a treatise on art theory in which he explored the relationship between painting technique and spatial illusion. His speciality was trompe l’oeil, paintings that “deceive the eye” as does this one. An old man is gazing from a meticulously painted window with a stone frame. According to a tradition that is now presumed to be mistaken, the man is Rabbi Yom Tov Lipmann Heller (1579– 1654), who succeeded in gaining permission for Jews to live in Vienna’s Leopoldstadt district. The picture was painted while Hoogstratens stay in Vienna.
Artist:
Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627 - 1678 Dordrecht) DNB
Time:
1653
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Dutch
Material/technology:
Canvas
Dimensions:
111 cm × 86,5 cm
Framed: 118,5 cm × 94,8 cm × 5,5 cm
Signed
Inscribed at bottom right: SVH (ligated) 1653
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 378
Provenance
Since its creation in 1653 in imperial possession
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