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| death_place = Venice, Republic of Venice| nationality = Dutch| field = Painting| movement = Dutch Golden Age painting}}Karel Dujardin (September 27, 1626WEB, Discover print artist, painter, draftsman Karel du Jardin,weblink RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History, 7 November 2020, "1626-09/1626-09-27 [B]aptized on 27 September 1626 in the Lutheran Church in Amsterdam. In a document dated 16 May 1672, published by Bredius, Du Jardin is mentioned as about 50 years. As a consequence, his birth was previously estimated as c. 1622 (Kilian 2005, p. 11)."{{spaced ndash}}November 20, 1678) was a Dutch Golden Age painter. Although he did a few portraits and a few history paintings of religious subjects, most of his work is small Italianate landscape scenes with animals and peasants, and other genre scenes. Dujardin spent two extended periods, at the beginning and end of his career, in Italy, and most of his paintings and landscape etchings have an Italian or Italianate setting.

Biography

Karel Dujardin was a Dutch painter and etcher, born in Amsterdam in 1626. Typical of his landscape paintings is Farm Animals in the Shade of a Tree (1656; National Gallery, London). He died in Venice in 1678.After supposedly training with Nicolaes Berchem,Bolton, Roy (2009) The Collectors: Old Master Paintings, "Karel Dujardin: A Horseman Holding a Roemer of Wine with an Ostler Tending the Horses", London, Sphinx Books. {{ISBN|978-1-907200-03-8}}. the young Dujardin went to Italy, and joined the Bentvueghels group of painters in Rome, among whom he was known as , "goat-beard", or Bokkebaart.{{in lang|nl}} Karel de Jardyn biography in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature Here he encountered his first artistic successes.According to Houbraken, while in Lyon in France, he contracted considerable debts, and married his (older) landlady to free himself of them. He went with her to Amsterdam, where his pictures were valued very highly. In 1675, he returned to Rome, on an invitation from his friend Joan Reynst and was welcomed by his old friends and admirers. Renst and Dujardin went on a Grand Tour to other Italian cities, but when Reynst went back to Amsterdam, Dujardin remained in Italy, and gave him a message for his wife that he would follow soon. He travelled on to Venice but died there unexpectedly in 1678. According to Reynst, he had said: "why should I be in a hurry to go back? I am where I want to be". According to his friend Johannes Glauber, who he had met previously in Rome, he was painting for a Dutch merchant in Venice when he suddenly became unwell. Though he seemed to recover, his stomach was too full and he died. Though he was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church, he was laid to rest in the Catholic manner (wrapped in a white shroud) and was carried to his grave by his friends Govert van der Leeuw and Glauber. Among his pupils were Jacob II, son of Jacob van der Does, Martinus Laeckman, and Erick van den Weerelt.Karel Dujardin in the RKD

Collections

File:Karel Dujardin - Boy Blowing Soap Bubbles. Allegory on the Transitoriness and the Brevity of Life - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|Boy Blowing Soap Bubbles. Allegory on the Transitoriness and the (wikt:brevity|Brevity) of Life]]Dujardin is represented in the following collections amongst others: Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK; Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Louvre Museum, Paris; Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota; National Gallery, London, UK; Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Crocker Art Museum, California; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, UK; Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts; Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; Ringling Museum of Art, Florida; Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium; Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago; Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest; The Wallace Collection, London, UK; Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid; Rhode Island School of Design, RI; Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend-on-Sea.

Work

File:Karel Dujardin - Woman Milking a Red Cow.jpg|Woman Milking a Red Cow, oil on canvas. Image:Karel Dujardin 001.jpg|The sick kidImage:dujardin-farm-animals-boy-herdswoman-NG826-fm.jpg|Farm Animals in the Shade of a Tree, 1656, London, National Gallery.Image:Karel Dujardin 002.jpg|The Herding boyImage:Karel Dujardin 003.jpg|Rest at an Italian innImage:Karel Dujardin - Hagar and Ishmael in the Wilderness.jpg|Hagar and Ishmael in the WildernessImage:DUJARDIN Karel St Paul Healing the Cripple at Lystra.jpg|St. Paul healing the cripple at LystraFile:Karel Dujardin- Tobias and the angel.jpg| Tobias and the angelFile:Portret van een man, mogelijk Jacob de Graeff, schepen van Amsterdam in 1672, SK-C-157.jpg|Jacob de Graeff (?), 1670

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External links

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• Work by Karel Dujardin at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
• Works and literature at PubHist

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