Pan and Syrinx, Caesar van Everdingen, c. 1637 - c. 1640

Identification

Title(s)

Pan and Syrinx

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-4882

Inscriptions / marks

signature: ‘cVE’

Description

De nimf Syrinx is op de vlucht. De bosgod Pan, tussen het groen verscholen, zit haar op de hielen. Van Everdingen heeft gekozen voor het dramatische moment van gedaantewisseling. Syrinx smeekt de riviernimfen om hulp, die haar veranderen in waterriet. Haar rechtervoet wordt al groen. De teleurgestelde Pan hoort de wind door het riet spelen en snijdt daaruit zijn herdersfluit.

Creation

Artist

painter: Caesar van Everdingen

Dating

c. 1637 - c. 1640

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on panel

Material

Measurements

height 49.5 cm × width 37 cm

Subject

What

Syrinx changed into a reed: while fleeing from Pan, the nymph Syrinx is changed into reed by her sisters, the Naiads (Ovid, Metamorphoses I 705)

Acquisition and rights

Acquisition

purchase 1992

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

? The painters estate;{Huys Janssen 2002, p. 78, no. 20} …; private collection, Germany;{Heijbroek/Van Griensven 2007, p. 174.} …; the dealer P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 1972;{Heijbroek/Van Griensven 2007, p. 174; note RMA.} ….; collection J.K. Luttikhuis, Abcoude;{Note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, since 1972 (inv. no. SK-C-1517) ; from whom purchased by the museum in 1992

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Documentation

Kunst, kennis en kwaliteit : de Vereeniging van Handelaren in Oude Kunst in Nederland 1911-heden, afb. p. 175
Caesar van Everdingen 1616/17-1678 : monograph and catalogue raisonné, Paul Huys Janssen, Diane L. Webb, cat.nr. 20
All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam : a completely illustrated catalogue, p. 222
Hollandse schoonheid, Arjan de Koomen, p. 13, afb. 11
Keuze uit de aanwinsten, p. 182, afb. 2

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