Pictures from the tropics : paintings by western artists during the Dutch colonial period in Indonesia

Author(s): Scalliet, Marie-Odette

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Main Title
Pictures from the tropics : paintings by western artists during the Dutch colonial period in Indonesia
Author(s)
Scalliet, Marie-Odette
Publisher
Amsterdam : Pictures Publishers, 1999
ISBN
9073187338
Dewey Class
759.9598
Contents
Foreword / H.J. Gortzak -- Introduction / Koos van Brakel -- The East India Company: European Painters in the Netherlands East Indies in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries / Maria-Odette Scalliet. The Golden Age ; Painters, Paintings and Sources ; The VOC as Patron of the Arts ; VOC Paintings ; Andries Beeckman's Impressions of Batavia ; Seventeeth and Eighteenth Century Draughtsmen and Drawings: Joan Nieuhof, Cornelis de Bruyn and Francois Valentijn, Johann Wolffgang Heydt, Johannes Rach, Jan Brandes ; The VOC Era and the Enlightenment --
'Back to Nature' in the East Indies: European Painters in the Nineteeth Century East Indies / Marie-Odette Scalliet. A Transitional Period (1795-1816) ; Reinwardt and the Department of Agriculture, Fine Arts and Sciences ; A Government-Appointed Painter Sets Out for Java: 'Sign of the Times' ; Antoine Payen (1792-1853): Painter, Architect and Naturalist ; Raden Saleh (1811-1880): A Princely Painter ; Hubertus Nicolaas Sieburgh (1799-1842): A 'Picturesque Traveller' ; Jan Daniel Beynon (1830-1877) and his Studio at Batavia ; Dilettantes in the Javanese Inlands: Planters and Administrators: Abraham Salm, Jacob Dirk van Herwerden, Hermanus Theodorus Hesselaar, Maurits van den Kerkhoff; Willem Bleckmann (1853-1942): Impressions of Old Java --
Governors-General and Civilians: Portrait Art in the Dutch East Indies from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century / David van Duuren. The Portrait Gallery of Governors-General ; The Portraits from Both to Reyniersz (1610-1653) ; From Maetsuycker to Wiese (1653-1808) ; Raden Saleh (1811-1880) ; Jan Daniel Beynon and Some Others --
'For evidently, the Fine Arts do not Thrive in the Indies': The Artistic Climate in the Dutch East Indies in the First Half of the Twentieth Century / Koos van Brakel. Painters in the Indies ; Living by Art ; Painters Among Themselves ; Periodicals and Art Criticism ; The Painting of the Indies --
Painting in a Garden of Eden: European Artists in Bali during the First Half of the Twentieth Century / Jeannette ten Kate. Spies, Bonnet and the Bali Museum ; Searching for a Garden of Eden ; The Pita Maha Society ; After the War -- Bibliography -- Inventory.
Language
English
BRN
1767

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