Gaspar de Crayer worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Gaspar de Crayer as Flemish painter (1584-1669).
Gaspar de Crayer was born at Antwerp in 1584. His recorded nationality is Habsburg Netherlands.
This was the period in which the artist became an individual with a signature, a reputation and a price.
He worked as painter.
His recorded movement is baroque.
Among his best-known works are The adoration of the shepherds, The descent from the cross and The resurrection of Christ. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Habsburg Netherlands shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Gaspar de Crayer died in 1669, aged 85. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: The adoration of the shepherds
- Notable work: The descent from the cross
- Notable work: The resurrection of Christ
- Movement: Baroque
