05.02.2019-10.15.2019
SELF-PORTRAITS IN DUTCH PAINTING
Every man bears the whole imprint of the human condition" This quote of Montaigne (1533 -1592) did not only express at its time the general respect for our mankind but also asserted the importance of the construction of the self towards the collectivity.
By embracing this posture, the humanistic thought opened the way to the association of the autobiography with the self-portrait.
Needless to say that from the beginning of the 17th Century, in Dutch paintings, the history of Art presented works in which emerged the conscience of the artist reflecting his own condition.
The painter Pieter Codde (1599-Amsterdam-1678), presented at the exposition “SELF-PORTRAITS IN DUTCH PAINTING” by the Gallery Salomon Lilian, excelled in the mastering of this intimacy.
Combining self-portrait and elements of vanities, he contributed, like others amongst his contemporaries, to a more sincere construction of the identity of oneself, all to rediscover fully: that of the artist as the thinker
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PIETER CODDE
1599-Amsterdam-1678
Artiste dans son atelier, accordant un luth”
1629, signé et daté
Huile sur toile