Allegory of the ear and taste
CORNELIS STANGERUS
(Delft 1616 – Middelburg 1667)
Oil on table. 41 x 36 cm. (16,14 x 14,17 in) (each) Signed with initials C.S. 1653
The two small paintings are a representation, in a funny tone, of the allegories of hearing and taste, as is evident in the represented elements: the violin, the wine glass in the left hand and the pitcher in the right.
Dutch painter from a very wealthy family, his father was the “Dr. Stangerus “, teacher of Latin in the school of Delft and of which a portrait realized by Mierevelt is known. Being very young Cornelis Stangerus began his apprentice as a painter with Cornelis de Man. In 1634, he is documented in Amsterdam that he married Maria Sibauts. In 1664 it appears mentioned in Middelburg, city where it will die. From the limited documentation that exists about the artist, we do know that Stangerus was a painter of social histories with a certain influence of the painters of the Utrecht School, such as Gerrit van Honthorst. It is also known that he painted some still lifes.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
- A. Blankert, “Heraclitus en Democritus, in het bijzonder in de Nederlandse Kunst van de 17de eeuw”, en: Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, vol. 18, 1967.
- A. Pliger, Barockthemen, Budapest, 1974, Vol. II, pg. 313.
- G. Jansen, “Cornelius Satangerus, an artful painter”, en Mercury, Vol. I, 1985.
- E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs…, Vol.13, pg.157.
PROVENANCE
- Private collection, London.