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Location. Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands. Accession. 1896. The Goldfinch ( Dutch: Het puttertje) is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age artist Carel Fabritius of a life-sized chained goldfinch. Signed and dated 1654, it is now in the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands. The work is a trompe-l'œil oil on panel measuring ...
Dec 12, 2016 · For art historians, this information makes the painting invaluable, because Carel Fabritius (1622-54) was an important artist of the Dutch Golden Age. During the 1640s, he trained in Rembrandt’s ...
The Goldfinch (Dutch: Het puttertje) is a 1654 animal painting by Carel Fabritius of a chained goldfinch. It is an oil painting on panel of 33.5 by 22.8 cm (13.2 by 9.0 in). The work belongs to the collection of the Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands.
Carel Fabritius was a painter with his own unique style He painted portraits, still lifes, townscapes and history paintings, often in vivid colours and with subtle treatment of light. Fabritius made one of his most extraordinary pieces, The Goldfinch, in 1654. It is a lifelike portrait of a goldfinch against a white wall.
Carel Fabritius was a Dutch 17th-century painter with a completely unique style. He painted portraits, still lifes, views of towns and cities and history paintings, often in bright colours and with clever lighting. In 1654 Fabritius painted one of his most extraordinary pictures, The Goldfinch.
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The Goldfinch, 1654. Oil on panel. 13 ¼ x 9 in. (33.5 x 22.8 cm) Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague. Acquired in 1896. Inv. no. 605. Fabritius uses a minimum of quick strokes to portray the house pet’s downy body. Such expert manipulation of paint to suggest form and texture may have been assimilated from Rembrandt, with whom he ...
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The Goldfinch. Carel Fabritius 1654. Mauritshuis. Den Haag, Netherlands. A goldfinch is sitting on its feeder, chained by its foot. Goldfinches were popular pets, as they could be taught tricks like drawing water from a bowl with a miniature bucket. This is one of the few works we know by Fabritius. He painted the goldfinch with clearly visible ...
