Adriaen van der Cabel or Ary van der Touw (1631 – 16 June 1705), was a

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landscape painter active in France and Italy.

Biography

Adriaen van der Kabel - Port of Genua 1660

He was born and grew up in the small town of

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, near

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. Cabel was also known as Ary. According to Houbraken, he was a student of

Jan van Goyen Jan Josephszoon van Goyen (; 13 January 1596 – 27 April 1656) was a Dutch landscape painter. The scope of his landscape subjects was very broad as he painted forest landscapes, marine paintings, river landscapes, beach scenes, winter landscap ...

, and his real name was ''van der Touw'' (English: "of String"), but that wasn't grand enough according to Van Goyen, so he changed it to mean "of Cable". Houbraken wrote that his brother Engel was also a painter, and that Adriaen was already living in Lyon when Johannes Glauber made his grand tour. Cabel moved to

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

as a young man and spent the rest of his life there. According to the RKD, he lived in Lyon from 1655 to 1658, then Rome from 1659 to 1666, and finally Lyon again from 1668 to his death.Adriaen van der Kabel
in the RKD His bentname was ''Geestigheid''. His work is sometimes confused with that of his brother Engel van der Cabel (1641-after 1695), also known as Ange or Angelo. Engel accompanied his brother on his travels and they both married on the same day. Like his brother, Engel became a member of the

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with the nickname ''Corydon'', and he moved with him to Lyons, where in the year 1672, he became a 'Maître-Garde' of the

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there. Van der Cabel's best known student was Lyonnaise landscape painter Adrien Manglard, who was also his godson. Like van der Cabel, Manglard moved to Rome, where he became one of the best known landscape painters of his day. Van der Cabel introduced young Manglard to the Dutch landscape painting tradition, as well as the Romano-Bolognese landscape painting style typical of the seventeenth century, which came to influence Cabel during his stay in Italy.

Gallery

File:Adriaen van der Cabel - River Landscape with a Bastion L10037-135-lr-1.jpg, ''River Landscape with a Bastion'', c. 1660s, Private collection, Location unknown File:Adriaen van der Kabel - Gezicht op Katwijk.jpg, ''Beach at Katwijk.'', 1650–1670,

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File:Adriaen van der Kabel - Le Chemin de Riccio près d'Albano.jpg, ''The Riccio Trail near Albano'', 1659–1666,

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File:A mediterranean harbour scene, attributed to Adriaen van der Kabel.jpg, '' A Mediterranean Harbour Scene with Figures'', Late 17th century, Private collector, Unknown location File:A river Landscape with Sailboats moored by a Bank by Adriaen van der Kabel.jpg, ''A River Landscape with Sailboats Moored by a Bank, Houses Nearby, a Town Beyond'', 1640s, Private collection, Location unknown File:Boerenwagen op een weg, door Adriaen van der Kabel.jpg, ''Farmer's Cart on a Road'', Unknown location

Bibliography

References

External links

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