Joos van Craesbeeck
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| - | A '''tronie''' ([[Dutch language|Dutch]] for a "face") is a common type of [[Dutch Baroque painting|Dutch]] and [[Flemish Baroque painting]] that shows an exaggerated [[facial expression]] or a [[stock character]] in costume. Typically a painted head or bust only, if concentrating on the facial expression, but often half-length if an exotic costume featured, they might be based on studies from life or use the features of actual sitters. But the image would normally be sold on the art market without identification of the sitter, and would not have been commissioned and retained by the sitter as [[portrait]]s normally were. Several [[Rembrandt]] [[self-portrait]] [[etching]]s are tronies, as are paintings of himself, his son and his women. (This is true of modern art-historical terminology; however, historical usage is not so precise. Seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish inventories of paintings might use the term for any [[unidentified]] [[sitter]]. Three [[Vermeer]] paintings were described as "tronies" in the [[Dissius]] auction of [[1696]], perhaps including the ''[[Girl with a Pearl Earring]]'' and the Washington ''[[Girl with a flute]]''. | + | ''''''Joos van Craesbeeck'''''' (''c''. 1605/06– ''c''. 1660) was a [[Flemish painter]] who specialized in tavern interiors, [[tronie]]s, and other works similar to his teacher [[Adriaen Brouwer]]. Born in Neerlinter ([[Flemish Brabant]]), he became a master in Antwerp's [[guild of St. Luke]] in 1633–1634, and like his contemporaries [[David Teniers the Elder]] and [[David Rijckaert III]] he developed rustic [[genre painting|genre scenes]]. He subsequently moved to [[Brussels]], where he joined that city's painters' guild in 1651. |
| - | The tronie is related to, and has some overlap with, the "portrait historié", a portrait of a real person '''as''' another, usually historical or [[mythological]], figure. [[Jan de Bray]] specialised in these, and many portraitists sometimes showed aristocratic ladies in particular as mythological figures. | + | Paintings such as ''Death is Violent and Fast'' are typical of his small, theatrical images of [[peasant]]s brawling crowded with violent expressive figures. Unlike Teniers, whose style became more elegant, Craesbeeck continued to paint bawdy figures later in his career. |
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| - | [[Joos van Craesbeeck]]'s ''[[The Smoker]]'', similar to many paintings by [[Adriaen Brouwer]], is an example of a "tronie". | + | |
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'Joos van Craesbeeck' (c. 1605/06– c. 1660) was a Flemish painter who specialized in tavern interiors, tronies, and other works similar to his teacher Adriaen Brouwer. Born in Neerlinter (Flemish Brabant), he became a master in Antwerp's guild of St. Luke in 1633–1634, and like his contemporaries David Teniers the Elder and David Rijckaert III he developed rustic genre scenes. He subsequently moved to Brussels, where he joined that city's painters' guild in 1651.
Paintings such as Death is Violent and Fast are typical of his small, theatrical images of peasants brawling crowded with violent expressive figures. Unlike Teniers, whose style became more elegant, Craesbeeck continued to paint bawdy figures later in his career.
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