The Portland Art Museum in Portland, Oregon has a collection of seventeenth-century paintings. Some of these are shown below.
Shown above is Mercury and Herse (1655) by French artist Thomas Blanchet (1614-1689), oil on canvas.
Shown above is John the Baptist Preaching on the Sea of Tiberias (1655/1660) by French artist Sébastien Bourdon (1616-1671), oil on canvas.
Shown above is The Battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs (1682) by Italian artist Luca Giordano (1632-1705), oil on canvas.
Shown above is St. Lawrence Giving the Treasures of the Church to the Poor (1635-40) by Italian artist Bernardo Strozzi (1581-1644), oil on canvas.
Shown above is Reuben Showing the Bloody Coat of Joseph to Jacob (1655-1670) by Italian artist Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591-1666), oil on canvas.
Shown above is Portrait of Cardinal Domenico Rivarola (1623-1624) by Flemish artist Sir Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641), oil on canvas.
According to the display:
“Van Dyck trained in Antwerp with the great Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens. In the 1620s he traveled to England and to Italy where he painted Cardinal Domenico Rivarola. When he returned to London in 1632, he was appointed principal painter to King Charles I.”
Shown above is Portrait of Infanta María Ana de Austria (1630) by Spanish artist Felipe Diriksen (1590-1679), oil on canvas.
According to the display:
“Felipe Diriksen came from a Flemish family of artists in service to the Spanish monarchy since the sixteenth century.”
Shown above is The Adoration of the Shepherds (1640) by French artist Philippe de Champaigne (1602-1674), oil on canvas.
According to the display:
“Trained in his native Belgium, Champaigne became a French citizen but he retained his connections with Flanders. Though much sought after as a portrait artist in French court circles, his career as a religious painter was equally important.”
Shown above is Cleopatra and the Asp (1650-60) by French artist Michel Corneille (ca. 1601-1664), oil on canvas.
Shown above is The Presentation in the Temple (1652-57) by French artist Charles Poërson (1609-1667), oil on canvas.
Shown above is Christ Served by the Angels in the Wilderness (1635-40) by French artist Jacques Stella (1596-1657), oil on canvas.
Shown above is Portrait of a Sculptor (ca. 1680) by French artist Gabriel Revel (1643-1712).
Shown above is Group Portrait (1686) by French artist Gabriel Revel (1643-1712).
Shown above is A Peasant Family (ca. 1650-1660) by French artist Jean Michelin, oil on canvas.
According to the display:
“Several artists named Jean Michelin were recorded in Paris in the seventeenth century. All related and all Protestant, at least one of them fled religious persecution in France to settle at the Protestant court in Hanover.”
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