Gerharda Hermina Marius

Name: Dutch Art in the Nineteenth Century — Introductory
Author: Gerharda Hermina Marius

Dutch Art in the Nineteenth Century… (1908)

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“Dutch Art in the Nineteenth Century — Introductory”, published in 1908, is a work by Gerharda Hermina Marius. It explores elements such as painters, portrait and century.

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Gerharda Hermina Marius, Dutch Art in the Nineteenth Century… (1908)

“ To us, who had lost our liberty, our independence, our strength and who possessed so very little in the domain of art, the beginning of the nineteenth century brought nothing but humiliation upon humiliation. Our national existence appeared to be wiped out. We were without power of action or, consequently, of reaction. True, the seventeenth century had borne fruit in such superabundance that two successive centuries have not sufficed to make us realize it fully. ”

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Gerharda Hermina Marius, Dutch Art in the Nineteenth Century… (1908)

“ In Spain, the country where great painters appear like meteors, Goya had opened a new era. In France, weary of the carnage that had marked her Revolution, David, the man of iron ability, after glorifying the Republic under Robespierre, called into being, on the ruins of the eighteenth century, an imperial art which came to maturity under Napoleon and became the foundation of a school of painting that kept France at the head of the artistic world for well-nigh a century. ”

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Gerharda Hermina Marius, Dutch Art in the Nineteenth Century… (1908)

“ For not only had the best of these decoration-painters learnt their art as real painters and merely altered the character of their productions in obedience to the whims of the day: most of them did paint or draw landscapes or portraits and prove that they had it in their power to satisfy a demand for real painting, should it ever arise. For instance, in the Fodor Museum in Amsterdam, certain drawings by the tapestry-painter and manufacturer, Jacob Cats, display a strength, an old-Dutch quality, an originality which we should hardly have expected to find in those days. ”

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Gerharda Hermina Marius, Dutch Art in the Nineteenth Century… (1908)

“ We may take it, then, that these painters were still connected by a fine thread with the landscape-painters of the seventeenth century. On the other hand, so great were the demands of decoration-painting upon their strength and energy, that they had sunk remarkably low in the matter of portrait-painting. And yet portraits were asked for not only by the princes and the aristocracy, but also by the well-to-do middle class. The tapestry-painters produced a number of small family-portraits, mostly naive and weak, although occasionally distinguished by a certain delicacy of conception. ”

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Gerharda Hermina Marius, Dutch Art in the Nineteenth Century… (1908)

“ Still, if only for the reason that the eighteenth century contains the predecessors or, at any rate, the teachers of the painters of the nineteenth century, it is well worth while to consider these decoration-painters from another point of view than that of the applied art which owed its prosperity to the luxury of the merchant-princes of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Dordrecht and Middelburg. ”

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Gerharda Hermina Marius, Dutch Art in the Nineteenth Century… (1908)

“ If, nevertheless, we insist upon considering these three painters as offshoots of our great century, then we must needs add that they were the last effort of an exhausted soil. The art of painting declined into the art of decoration or scene-painting, the painter's workshop was transformed into the tapestry-factory. ”

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Gerharda Hermina Marius, Dutch Art in the Nineteenth Century… (1908)

“ The grouping of the small family-portraits, usually in pastel, suggested the traditional semi-circle in which Molière is played at the Théâtre Français. They seemed, however, to give pleasure to the purchasers; and, to tell the truth, on looking into these unpretentious little family-groups, we find that they present a more general family-resemblance and are more lifelike than most of the photographic portraits of thirty years ago. ”

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Gerharda Hermina Marius, Dutch Art in the Nineteenth Century… (1908)

“ The other, Charles Howard Hodges (1764-1837) , was a painter of greater importance, a man of excellent gifts, whose portraits strike one at once by their elegance, their bright colouring and their supple, if somewhat weak workmanship. Kramm, in his Lives and Works of the Dutch and Flemish Painters, praises him for the subtle manner in which he flattered his sitters. To us he is the portrait-painter of the Empire period ”

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