Jan Kraeck
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Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy by Kraek
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Philip Emmanuel of Savoy, age five (1591), oil on linen, 128 x 91 cm, Madrid, Museo del Prado
Jan Kraeck (1540, Haarlem – 1607, Turin), was a Dutch Renaissance painter who travelled to Italy and remained there.
Biography
According to Karel van Mander he was visited by Hendrik Cornelisz Vroom in 1585 in Turin.[1]
According to the RKD he was the father-in-law of the painter-architect Friedrich Sustris and became court painter to Emanuel Philibert, duc de Savoie and after the duke died in 1580, to the duke's successor Charles Emanuel I.[2]
Works
- P/1: Portrait of Victor Amadeus I of Savoy, as a child, auctioned at Christie's in London on 22 April 2005
- P/2: Portrait of Thomas of Savoy-Carignan, as a child, also auctioned at Christie's on the same day as the Portrait of Victor Amadeus of Savoy
- P/3: Portrait of Margaret of Savoy, duchess of Mantua, as a child (1595)
- P/4: Portrait of Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy, Age 18 (1580)
- G/1: Group of two children: Philip Emmanuel and Victor Amadeus I of Savoy (Two sons of Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy)
- G/2: Group of two chuldren: Victor Amadeus I and Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy (Sone of Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy), auctioned at Christie's in London on 14 December 2010
- G/3: Group of three children: Victor Amadeus I, Emmanuel Philibert and Philip Emmanuel, children of Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy
- P/5: Portrait of Philip Emmanuel of Savoy, teenager, son of Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy
- P/6: Portrait of Victor Amadeus of Savoy as a teenager
- P/7: Portrait of Emmanuel Philibert of Savoy, viceroy of Sicily, teenager, 2nd son of Charles Emmanuel I, duke of Savoy
- P/8: Mary Apolline of Savoy, child, daughter of Charles-Emmanuel I of Savoy
- P/9: Senator Milliet (1577), Musée des beaux-arts de Chambéry
- P/10: Jeanne Lambert (1577), Musée savoisien (Savoysian Museum) de Chambéry, the wife of president Milliet
- P/11: Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy (1607)
Religious paintings
- The Holy Family
References
- ↑ (Dutch) Ian Kraeck in Karel van Mander's Schilder-boeck, 1604, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- ↑ Jan Kraeck in the RKD
Bibliography
- Astrua Paola, Bava Anna Maria, Spantigati Carla Enrica, Il nostro pittore fiamengo (Our Flemish Painters), Giovanni Carraca alla corte dei Savoia (1568-1607), Turin, Umberto Allemandi & C, 1955, 2002 and 2006 editions. (ISBN 978-8842213710)
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