In the history of art, Karel Dujardin is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Karel Dujardin as Dutch painter (1622-1678).
Karel Dujardin was born at Amsterdam in 1626. His recorded nationality is Netherlands.
Patronage, the guild system and a new open art market shaped what could be painted and for whom.
He worked as painter, engraver and graphic artist.
His recorded movement is dutch golden age painting.
Among his best-known works are The Waterfalls at Tivoli, Italian Landscape with a Young Shepherd Playing with his Dog and Italianate Landscape with Cattle. Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
That the work was made in Netherlands shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Karel Dujardin died in 1678, aged 52. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: The Waterfalls at Tivoli
- Notable work: Italian Landscape with a Young Shepherd Playing with his Dog
- Notable work: Italianate Landscape with Cattle
- Movement: Dutch Golden Age painting
