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Roelant Savery: Orpheus Charming the Animals with his Music  wikidata:Q28113838 reasonator:Q28113838
Artist
Roelant Savery  (1576–1639)  wikidata:Q142710
 
Roelant Savery
Alternative names
Roelant Saverij, Roeland Savery, Roeland Maertensz. Savery,
Roelandt Savery, Roelandt Savry
Description Flemish painter, drawer, printmaker and court painter
Date of birth/death 1576 Edit this at Wikidata 25 February 1639 (buried)
Location of birth/death Kortrijk Utrecht
Work period from 1587 until 1639
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1587-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1639-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Haarlem (1587), Amsterdam (1591), Prague (1603-1613), Vienna, Tirol (1606-1608), Amsterdam (1614-1618), Utrecht (1618-1639)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q142710
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Orpheus Charming the Animals with his Music Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Lde,"Orpheus verzaubert die Tiere mit seiner Musik"
label QS:Len,"Orpheus Charming the Animals with his Music"
label QS:Lnl,"Orpheus betovert de dieren met zijn muziek"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre mythological painting Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1627
date QS:P571,+1627-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on panelmedium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 62 cm (24.4 in); width: 131.5 cm (51.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,62U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,131.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q2805178
Accession number
157
Place of creation Utrecht
Object history by 1632
date QS:P,+1632-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1632-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (1584-1647) and Amalia of Solms-Braunfels (1602-1675), Stadhouderlijk Kwartier, The Hague, ‘Op de galderije van Mevrou de princesse’, as ‘Een Orpheus van diversche beesten ende bosschagien door Savory’

by 1654-1668: Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, Het Oude Hof, today Noordeinde Palace, The Hague, as ‘Een schilderije sijnde een Orpheus met allerley gedierte ende gevogelte, mede gemaeckt bij Roelant Savery’

1676: inherited by Countess Henriette Catherine of Nassau (1637-1708) from Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, The Hague

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: inherited by Princess Henriëtte Amalia of Anhalt-Dessau (1666-1726) from Countess Henriette Catherine of Nassau
by 1726
date QS:P,+1726-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1726-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Schloss Oranienstein, Diez, 'In der groszen gallerij’, as ‘Orpheus die thiere zusahmen spielende, ein extra von Saverey’
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: inherited by William V, Prince of Orange (1748-1806), The Hague

1775: transferred to the Gallery Prince Willem V, The Hague, from Schloss Oranienstein, Diez

1795: nationalized (?)

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: transferred to the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague, Inventory number 157
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: transferred to the Gallery Prince Willem V, The Hague
Exhibition history

Roelandt Savery, 1576-1639, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, 10 April 1954–13 June 1954, cat. no.  36.

Nederlandse landschappen uit de zeventiende eeuw, July 1963–August 1963, Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, Cat.no. 114.
Inscriptions

Signature and date bottom center:

ROELANDT / SAVERY FE / 1627

Text verso:

Ein stick von Serwie.N.18
References

Anonymous (1822) Notitie der schilderijen van het Koninklijk Kabinet te 's Gravenhage, 's Gravenhage: A.H. Bakhuyzen, p. 19, cat. no.  163, as Orpheus, de Dieren tot zich lokkende.

Anonymous and Victor de Stuers (1875) Beknopte beschrijving van de kunstvoorwerpen tentoongesteld in het Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen te 's Gravenhage, 's Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff, p. 20, cat. no.  126, as Orpheus.

Anonymous and W. Martin (1875) Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen, Mauritshuis. Beknopte catalogus der schilderijen en beeldhouwwerken, 's-Gravenhage: Algemeene Landsdrukkerij, p. 65, cat. no.  157, as Orpheus betovert de dieren door zijn spel, 1617.

Mauritshuis online catalogue, as Orpheus Charming the Animals with his Music.

RKDimages, Art-work number 6124, as Orpheus enchanting the animals with his music

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, object 20360884, as Orpheus verzaubert die Tiere mit seiner Musik
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