Emblematic Still Life with Flagon, Glass, Jug and Bridle

• Emblematic Still Life with Flagon, Glass, Jug and Bridle
• Emblematic still life with flagon, glass, jug and bridle

SK-A-2813

• signature and date, on the bit on the left (with ligated monogram): ‘JT / 1614’
• inscription, bottom centre, on the paper: ‘ER * wat bu-ten maat be-staat, int on-maats qaat ver-ghaat*’

A pewter flagon, a wine glass, an earthenware jug, a bridle or rein, and a piece of paper with two staves and inscribed ‘what is out of measure, perishes in immeasurable evil.’ These are exhortations to moderation. You must cut wine with water, curb your appetites. This strict message contrasts sharply with the reputation of the painter, who was repeatedly accused of whoremongery and heresy.

A. Wallert, 'A peculiar emblematic still-life painting from Johannes Torrentius', Art Matters 4 (2007), p. 54-67.

painter: Johannes Torrentius

1614

olieverf op paneel

diameter 51 cm x diameter 51.5 cm

Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt

purchase 1918-06

Public domain

...; private collection, Lisse, 1629;{State Papers of Charles I, vol. 155, no. 75, published in Bredius 1909, pp. 8-9, `Of Torentius Pictures There be at friends house, lyes in Liss neer Leyden, 7 pieces. 1. On a round bred donne 1614 is his fynest piece which is a glass with wyne in it very well donne, between a tynne pott ad an errthen pott, a sett song under it and a bitt of a Brydle over it.´}...; ? taken by Torrentius to England in 1630;{Brown 1997, pp. 227, 229.}...; collection King Charles I;{Branded monogram on the reverse of the support.} ? Hampton Court, 1649, as `A round peece wth potts. and glasses´, £ 15, to Timothy Cruso, 22 March 1649/50;{Millar 1972, p. 191.}...; Mr Van Essen, Deventer, around mid-19th century;{Van Riemsdijk 1915, p. 249.}...; collection J.F. Sachse, Enschede, 1913; from whom purchased by the museum, 1918

• A. Wallert, 'A peculiar emblematic still-life painting from Johannes Torrentius', Art Matters 4 (2007), p. 54-67.
• Tony English, Tug of War: The Tension Concept and the Art of International Negotiation, Melbourne 2010, p. 36-40.
• A. Marr, 'Temperance or Indulgence? Wine in still lifes of the Dutch Golden Age', in: The World of Wine, no. 16 (2007), p, 103 + afb.

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https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200108016