Jacob Backer

Venus, Adonis and Amor



Jacob Backer - Venus, Adonis and Amor



Jacob Backer
Venus, Adonis and Amor
c. 1650/51
200 x 237.4 cm
Oil on canvas
Kurhessische Hausstiftung, Schloß Fasanerie, Eichenzell (Fulda)


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Jacob Backer - Sitting Nude Woman
Jacob Backer
Sitting Nude Woman
c. 1648/50

Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler I, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, nr. 14

Literature
Erna Kok, Een liefdespaar onthuld. Jacob Adriaensz. Backer's zogenoemde David en Bathseba opnieuw geïdentificeerd als Isaäk en Rebekka in Oud Holland, 124, 2011 pp. 119-140, fig. 6
Eric Jan Sluijter, Rembrandt's rivals, Amsterdam; Philadelphia, 2015, fig. IIB-41
Lyckle de Vries, Stories in gilded frames, Amsterdam, 2016, fig. 39
Norbert Middelkoop (ed.), Ferdinand Bol and Govert Flinck, Amsterdam, 2017, fig. 140


Exhibitions

2008 Jacob Backer (1608/9-1651), Rembrandts tegenpool, Nr. 37
1999 Dutch classicism in seventeenth-century painting, Nr. 25

Other works by Jacob Adriaensz. Backer


Jacob Backer Hippocrates visiting Democritus in Abdera
Hippocrates visiting Democritus in Abdera

Jacob Backer John the Baptist Accusing Herod and Herodias
John the Baptist Accusing Herod and Herodias
1633

Jacob Backer Portrait of Bartholomeus Breenbergh
Portrait of Bartholomeus Breenbergh
1644

Jacob Adriaensz. Backer Half naked woman with a coin
Half naked woman with a coin
c. 1636

Jacob Backer Regents of the Amsterdam Orphanage
Regents of the Amsterdam Orphanage
c. 1634