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DOI Artikel:Kozak, Anna; De Herdt, Jan [Ill.]: Jan de Herdt, a forgotten 17th century Flemish painter
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9. Jan de Herdt, Flagellation, oil on canvas, former collegiate church in Waldhausen, Austria
(photo: Bundesdenkmal, Yienna)
10. Jan de Herdt, Flagellation, drawing, Warsaw Muzeum Narodowe
XX, Fig. 7). The first painting is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Yienna. As I said above,
it probably became part of the imperial collection immediately after its origin. The remaining
ones are in the Moravian Gallery in Brno and less is known of their history. In Herdt’s cor-
respondence with the Forhoudt house from 1671, mention is madę of a canvas representing
Armida and Rinaldo, sold by the firm to duke Swertsenberg (Schwarzenberg?). It may be one
of the two paintings depicting these characters, Rinaldo and Armida in Armida’s Magie Garden
or Rinaldo Stopping Armida from Suicide. Yet it is merely a conjecture because Herdt might
have painted another pieture of the couple that has been either lost or remained unrecognized
in an Austrian collection. Oddly enough, there is no mention of the paintings for Tasso’s Geru-
salemme Liberała in Cerroni’s manuscript38. Was it because they had not yet reached Brno?
38. Cerroni, op. citp. 112
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(photo: Bundesdenkmal, Yienna)
10. Jan de Herdt, Flagellation, drawing, Warsaw Muzeum Narodowe
XX, Fig. 7). The first painting is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Yienna. As I said above,
it probably became part of the imperial collection immediately after its origin. The remaining
ones are in the Moravian Gallery in Brno and less is known of their history. In Herdt’s cor-
respondence with the Forhoudt house from 1671, mention is madę of a canvas representing
Armida and Rinaldo, sold by the firm to duke Swertsenberg (Schwarzenberg?). It may be one
of the two paintings depicting these characters, Rinaldo and Armida in Armida’s Magie Garden
or Rinaldo Stopping Armida from Suicide. Yet it is merely a conjecture because Herdt might
have painted another pieture of the couple that has been either lost or remained unrecognized
in an Austrian collection. Oddly enough, there is no mention of the paintings for Tasso’s Geru-
salemme Liberała in Cerroni’s manuscript38. Was it because they had not yet reached Brno?
38. Cerroni, op. citp. 112
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