Artist
Gaspar de Crayer
Habsburg Netherlands, 1584–1669
Gaspar de Crayer was a Habsburg Netherlands Flemish Baroque painting painter. 31 works are cataloged here, principally at Kunsthistorisches Museum, most of them oil paintings. Gaspar de Crayer was born in Antwerp.
The Meeting of Alexander the Great and Diogenes
Philip IV (1605–1665) in Parade Armor
Virgin with child and saints Maria Magdalen, Cecilia, Dorothea, Catharina and Augustine
Lamentation
The Annunciation
The ghost of Samuel appears to the witch of Endor; Saul falls prostrate to the ground (1 Samuel 28:3-20)
Gaspar de Crayer or Jasper de Crayer (18 November 1584 – 27 January 1669) was a Flemish painter known for his many Counter-Reformation altarpieces and portraits. He was a court painter to the governors of the Southern Netherlands and worked in the principal cities of Flanders where he helped spread the Rubens style.
Works by Gaspar de Crayer
- The Meeting of Alexander the Great and Diogenes
- Philip IV (1605–1665) in Parade Armor
- Virgin with child and saints Maria Magdalen, Cecilia, Dorothea, Catharina and Augustine
- Lamentation
- The Annunciation
- The ghost of Samuel appears to the witch of Endor; Saul falls prostrate to the ground (1 Samuel 28:3-20)
The adoration of the shepherds
The descent from the cross
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