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DOI Artikel:Kozak, Anna; De Herdt, Jan [Ill.]: Jan de Herdt, a forgotten 17th century Flemish painter
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18902#0069
8. Anthonie van Dyck, Rinaldo and Armida in Armida’s Magie Garden, oil on canvas, Louvre,
Paris (photographed from a reproduction)
In 1667 Herdt created his greatest work, a series of paintings for Tasso’s Gerusalemme Libe-
rata. The following compositions on the subject have survived: Erminia at the Shepherds’x
(Canto VII, Fig. 3); Mortally Wounded Clorinda Baptised by Tancred (Canto XII, Fig. 4);
Rinaldo and Armida in Armida’s Magie Garden Peeped at by Carlo and Ubaldo (Canto XVI, Fig. 5);
Erminia Meeting Tancred (Canto XIX, Fig. 6); Rinaldo Stopping Armida from Suicide37 (Canto
6. Oil on canvas, 154 X 148 cm,signed and dated I:D: HERDT.F. 1667 on the panel, at the bottom in the middle,inv. no. 2921.
G. Heinz, op. cit.,figs., 146 and 147. I owe morę detailed information about the painting to Dr Karl Schiitz of the Kunst*
historisches Museum in Vienna whose help I wish to acknowledge.
37. Mortally Wounded Clorinda Baptised by Tancred, oil on canvas, 156x 156 cm, signed and dated: I.D. Herdt F 1667%
inv. no. KI. Aug. 8; Rinaldo and Armida in Armida's Magie Garden, oil on canvas, 156 x 156 cm, inv. no. KI. Aug. 9; Er-
minia Meeting Tancred, oil on canvas, 156 X 156 cm, inv. no. KI. Aug. 10; Rinaldo Stopping Armida from Suicide, oil on-
canvas, 156 x 156 cm. inv. no. KI. Aug. 11. K. Krejći, Evropskó Malirstvi, 16.—18. Stoleti, Brno, 1956, No. 37—40, p. 13.
M. A. Baroncelli,op. cit., p. 10, Figs. 8—11. I wish to express my thanks to Dr Helena Knozova of the Moravian Gallery
of Brno for information about the paintings and bibliographic directions.
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Paris (photographed from a reproduction)
In 1667 Herdt created his greatest work, a series of paintings for Tasso’s Gerusalemme Libe-
rata. The following compositions on the subject have survived: Erminia at the Shepherds’x
(Canto VII, Fig. 3); Mortally Wounded Clorinda Baptised by Tancred (Canto XII, Fig. 4);
Rinaldo and Armida in Armida’s Magie Garden Peeped at by Carlo and Ubaldo (Canto XVI, Fig. 5);
Erminia Meeting Tancred (Canto XIX, Fig. 6); Rinaldo Stopping Armida from Suicide37 (Canto
6. Oil on canvas, 154 X 148 cm,signed and dated I:D: HERDT.F. 1667 on the panel, at the bottom in the middle,inv. no. 2921.
G. Heinz, op. cit.,figs., 146 and 147. I owe morę detailed information about the painting to Dr Karl Schiitz of the Kunst*
historisches Museum in Vienna whose help I wish to acknowledge.
37. Mortally Wounded Clorinda Baptised by Tancred, oil on canvas, 156x 156 cm, signed and dated: I.D. Herdt F 1667%
inv. no. KI. Aug. 8; Rinaldo and Armida in Armida's Magie Garden, oil on canvas, 156 x 156 cm, inv. no. KI. Aug. 9; Er-
minia Meeting Tancred, oil on canvas, 156 X 156 cm, inv. no. KI. Aug. 10; Rinaldo Stopping Armida from Suicide, oil on-
canvas, 156 x 156 cm. inv. no. KI. Aug. 11. K. Krejći, Evropskó Malirstvi, 16.—18. Stoleti, Brno, 1956, No. 37—40, p. 13.
M. A. Baroncelli,op. cit., p. 10, Figs. 8—11. I wish to express my thanks to Dr Helena Knozova of the Moravian Gallery
of Brno for information about the paintings and bibliographic directions.
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