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Vanitas
Painting ID:: 71719
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Matthias Withoos
Vanitas
17th century
Oil on canvas
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Otter in a Landscape
Painting ID:: 71882
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Matthias Withoos
Otter in a Landscape
1640-1700
Oil on canvas
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Vanitas
Painting ID:: 92401
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Matthias Withoos
Vanitas
Date 17th century
Medium oil on canvas
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Matthias Withoos
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(1627-1703), also known as Calzetta Bianca and Calzetti, was a Dutch painter of still lifes and city scenes, best-known for the details of insects, reptiles and undergrowth in the foreground of his pictures.
Withoos was born in Amersfoort. He studied under Jacob van Campen, at his painters' school just outside the city at his country house, and then with Otto Marseus van Schrieck. When he was 21, Withoos made a trip to Rome with Van Schrieck, and Willem van Aelst. There they joined the group of northern artists known as the "Bentvueghels" ("Birds of a feather"), and Withoos went by the alias "Calzetta Bianca" ("White Hose") a translation of his name into Italian. Withoos' work caught the eye of the cardinal Leopoldo de Medici, who commissioned various paintings from him.
In 1653, the artist returned to Amersfoort.When French troops occupied Amersfoort in the "Disastrous Year" of 1672, Withoos fled from Amersfoort to Hoorn, where he would remain until his death in 1703. |
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