Una casa de camp al Vliet prop de Delft
Una casa de camp al Vliet prop de Delft c1660 del pintor holandès Jan van der Heyden (1637 – 1712); un pintor d'època barroca, dibuixant, gravador i pintor de vidre especialitzat en townscapes, durant l'edat d'or holandesa.
Aquesta és una representació de moda d'una part d'Holanda al segle XVII amb un canal navegable o un pas fluvial amb un camí ben cuidat.; i com es pot observar un trànsit de mercaderies considerable al llarg de la via fluvial.
Al marge dret del canal hi ha cases i solars que s'estenen a les terres fèrtils recuperades baixes., amb elegants masies semblants a la més propera a l'espectador; amb les seves pilastres jòniques i les lucarnes amb volutes.
A la vora d'un petit moll hi ha una gran barca amb gent com una dona rep mercaderies del comerciant del vaixell; i més avall pel camí veiem un home caminant, un gos i fora del camí de la dreta una senyora i una noia estan assegudes a l'herba prop de la casa principal treballant.
A la vora del riu hi ha molts arbres curts, herba i plantes; mentre que molts arbres més grans envolten les cases de la zona.
Una casa de camp al Vliet, prop de Delft, és una reproducció d'antics mestres d'art digital retocada d'una imatge de domini públic.
Informació a continuació derivada de Wikipedia.org
Jan van der Heyden va ser el tercer dels vuit fills nascuts de Jan Goriszoon, propietari d'un molí d'oli., comerciant de cereals, un corredor, un menonita (members of certain Christian groups belonging to the church communities of Anabaptist denominations named after Menno Simons (1496–1561) of Friesland) and his wife Neeltje Jans Munster; in Gorinchem, Països Baixos a 1637.
It is believed that Jan may have received his first artistic training in the studio of his eldest brother Goris van der Heyden who made and sold mirrors; as he had joined his brother in mirror producing and selling business.
It is also thought that he may have learned drawing from a glass painter; possibly Jacob van der Ulft (1621 – 1689), who was not only a glass painter, but a print artist, architect and mayor; and is regarded to be one of the most admired glass painters of that time (he was also from Jan home town).
Though Jan was an accomplished painter, this part of his career was not the source of his income. His main source of income was as an engineer, inventor and municipal official; and he had a special interest with the problem of fighting fires, most like because of the fire of the old town hall in Amsterdam and later other fires throughout Amsterdams neighborhoods.
Des de 1668 a 1671 Jan and his brother Nicolaes devoted much time and effort into developing a highly successful water pumping mechanism to address this problem.
He also devised a street lighting system for Amsterdam and in 1669 was appointed as the director of street lighting; després a 1673 Jan and Nicolaes received official appointments to manage the city’s fire-fighting equipment and organisation.
These two appointments were enough to ensure the long term prosperity of Jan; i 7 years later he moved with his family from Amsterdam to Koestraat near the St. Anthonismarkt, where he built a family home and factory for producing fire equipment.
En 1690 in collaboration with his eldest son Jan published an illustrated book on fire fighting; titulat “Beschrijving der nieuwlijks uitgevonden en geoctrojeerde Slangbrandspuiten” o bé “Description of the recently invented and patented hose fire engines”.
Upon his death at the age of 75, with his wife following a month later, Jan estate included more than 70 of his own paintings and it is believed that his only artistic pupil was his son of the same name, Jan.