All MOEYAERT, Claes Cornelisz. 's Paintings
The Painting Names Are Sorted From A to Z
Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters
Choice ID Image  Painting (From A to Z)       Details 
8231 Moses Ordering the Slaughter of the Midianitic ag  Moses Ordering the Slaughter of the Midianitic ag   1650 Oil on canvas Private collection
8232 Triumph of Bacchus ga  Triumph of Bacchus ga   1624 Oil on canvas Mauritshuis, The Hague
MOEYAERT, Claes Cornelisz.
Dutch painter (b. 1590/91, Durgerdam, d. 1655, Durgerdam) Dutch painter, etcher and draughtsman. He was the son of an aristocratic Catholic Amsterdam merchant and moved to the city with his family in 1605. He was the most prolific of the history painters now called the PRE-REMBRANDTISTS, whose representations of biblical and mythological narratives, as well as of more recent secular history, give particular emphasis to dramatic and psychological effects. After working initially as a draughtsman and etcher, Moeyaert soon made his name as a painter. Landscapes with animals feature prominently in both his etchings and his paintings. At first he followed the lead of Adam Elsheimer, then of fellow Pre-Rembrandtists Pieter Lastman and Jan and Jacob Pynas, eventually, in the mid-1630s,



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