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FYT, JOHANNES (1609-1661)
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See also:FYT, JOHANNES (1609-1661) , Belgian See also:animal painter, was See also:born at See also:Antwerp and christened on the 19th of See also:August 1609. He was registered apprentice to Hans See also:van den Berghe in 1621. Professionally van den Berghe was a restorer of old pictures rather than a painter of new ones. At twenty Johannes Fyt entered the gild of St See also:Luke as a See also:master, and from that See also:time till his See also:death in 1661 he produced a vast number of pictures in which the bold facility of See also:Snyders is See also:united to the powerful effects of See also:Rembrandt, and harmonies of gorgeous See also:tone are not less conspicuous than freedom of See also:touch and a true semblance of nature. There never was such a master of technical processes as Fyt in the "rendering of animal See also:life in its most varied forms. He may have been less correct in outline, less bold in See also:action than Snyders, but he was much more skilful and more true in the See also:reproduction of the coat of See also:deer, See also:dogs, greyhounds, See also:hares and monkeys, whilst in realizing the plumage of peacocks, woodcocks, ducks, See also:hawks, and cocks and hens, he had not his equal, nor was any artist even of the Dutch school more effective in relieving his compositions with accessories of tinted See also:cloth, See also:porcelain See also:ware, vases and See also:fruit. He was not See also:clever at figures, and he sometimes trusted for these to the co-operation of See also:Cornelius Schut or Willeborts, whilst his architectural backgrounds were sometimes executed by Quellyn. " See also:Silenus amongst Fruit and See also:Flowers," in the Harrach collection at See also:Vienna, " See also:Diana and her See also:Nymphs with the Produce of the See also:Chase," in the See also:Belvedere at Vienna, and " Dead See also:Game and Fruit in front of a Triumphal See also:Arch," belonging to See also:Baron von See also:Rothschild at Vienna, are specimens of the co-operation respectively of Schut, Willeborts and Quellyn. They are also Fyt's masterpieces. The earliest dated See also:work of the master is a See also:cat grabbing at a piece of dead poultry near a See also:hare and birds, belonging to Baron Cetto at See also:Munich, and executed in 1644. The latest is a " Dead Snipewith Ducks," of 166o, sold with the See also:Jager collection at See also:Cologne in 1871. See also:Great See also:power is shown in the See also:bear and See also:boar hunts at Munich and Ravensworth See also:castle. A "Hunted Roedeer with Dogs in the See also:Water," in the See also:Berlin: Museum, has some of the life and more of the roughness of Snyders, but lacks variety of tint and finish. A splendid specimen is the See also:Page and See also:Parrot near a table covered with game, guarded by a See also:dog staring at a See also:monkey, in the See also:Wallace collection. With the See also:needle and the See also:brush Fyt was equally clever. He etched 16 plates, and those representing dogs are of their See also:kind unique. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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