Arnout de Muyser was a painter active in the second half of the sixteenth century. He is an elusive character, who left several notable paintings of market scenes, but little is known about the artist himself. His work is believed to have influenced a later generation of German painters.
Work
Little is known about Arnout apart from the two market scenes he painted, namely ''Woman selling fruit and vegetables'' and ''Vegetable and Flower Market'', formerly in the collections of the Farnese family of Parma and now kept at the
Museum of Capodimonte
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in
Naples
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. Licia
Ragghianti Collobi notes the influences of
Joachim Beuckelaer
Joachim Beuckelaer (c. 1533 – c. 1570/4) was a Flemish painter specialising in market and kitchen scenes with elaborate displays of food and household equipment. for still lifes,
Hans Vredeman de Vries
Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527 – 1607) was a Dutch Renaissance architect, painter, and engineer. Vredeman de Vries is known for his publication in 1583 on garden design and his books with many examples on ornaments (1565) and perspective (1604 ...
for architectural decoration and
Maerten de Vos for figures in these two market scenes, which suggest he was trained in Antwerp around 1560-1570. Another work, ''A Fish Seller's Stall'' has also been attributed to de Muyser.
Elizabeth Honig has compared de Muyser's work with later paintings executed in Frankfurt and has concluded that de Muyser played a role in bringing paintings of market scenes to Germany. The structure, design and the painting's themes suggest that there was some link between Antwerp and Frankfurt.
[Honig, E.A., ''Painting & the Market in Early Modern Antwerp,'' Yale University Press, 1998, pp 134-36]
See also
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Museum of Capodimonte
Museo di Capodimonte is an art museum located in the Palace of Capodimonte, a grand House of Bourbon, Bourbon palazzo in Naples, Italy designed by Giovanni Antonio Medrano. The museum is the prime repository of Neapolitan painting and decorativ ...
References
Bibliography
* Akoun, Babylone Editions.
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Bénézit
The ''Benezit Dictionary of Artists'' (in French, ''Bénézit: Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs'') is an extensive publication of bibliographical information on painters, sculptors, designers and engravers created ...
, Paris, Gründ.
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Dutch genre painters
Dutch Renaissance painters