Pieter Legouch (? – November 1664 (buried 22 November 1664)) also ''Legoes'', was a Flemish-born

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still-life painter. His best known works are

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Biography

Name

His name is variously spelled Pieter Legouch, Pieter le Goes, Pieter le Gouch, Peeter le Goust, Pieter Le Goes, Pieter Le Gouch, Peeter Le Goust, Pieter Legoes, and Peeter Legoust. Another painter active in Antwerp in the same period, Pieter Cornelisz., also known as "Legouch", was called "van Hoeck".

Early life

Pieter (Daniëlsz) Legouch was born in

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, Southern Netherlands, in the late 16th century or early 17th century. He moved to

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, where he studied under Nicolaes Lamourlet. He then moved to the

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. An artist called Pieter Legoes was active in

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in 1648, possibly the same person. Between 1651 and 1664 he worked and lived in

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, in

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. He entered the local

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. He remained in Middelburg until his death. He was buried in Middelburg on 22 November 1664. Perhaps is favorite subject were

, especially

. An oil on canvas painting, which was attributed to Legouch in the 2000s, ''Vanitasstilleven met globe, schedel en viool'' ("Vanitas Still Life with Globe, Skull and Violin"), had been previously attributed to Edwaert Collier.

Gallery

File:Still life vanitas, Legouch 02.jpg, ''Vanitas Still Life with Globe, Skull and Violin'', c. 1660 File:Still life, Legouch.jpg, ''Still Life with a Stew, a Fish steak and a Flatfish on a Plate'', 1657

Sources

* Willigen, Adriaan van der; Meijer, Fred G., ''A dictionary of Dutch and Flemish still-life painters working in oils: 1525-1725'', Leiden: Primavera Press, 2003, ISBN 90-74310-85-0 * Groenendijk, Pieter, Beknopt biografisch lexicon van Zuid- en Noord-Nederlandse schilders, graveurs, glasschilders, tapijtwevers et cetera van ca. 1350 tot ca. 1720, Leiden: Primavera (2008) * Meijer, Fred G., ''Visstillevens in Holland en Vlaanderen'', in: Helmus, Liesbeth M. (ed.) Vis: stillevens van Hollandse en Vlaamse meesters 1550-1700, Utrecht: Centraal Museum (2004), pp. 13–73

References

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