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Frontispiece Design for a Book of Love Poems
Also titled Ontwerp voor het frontispice van liefdesgedichten
Jan Goeree (Middelburg, 1670–1731)
c. 1700
- Medium
- paper, ink, chalk
- Classification
- titelpagina
- Dimensions
- height 237 mm x width 195 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
Thanks to the tablet, held up by two women in the middle, we know that this title page must have been intended for a book of love poems by the Roman writers Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius. Jan Goeree enjoyed working with classical motifs. Illustrations of a Faun (right foreground) and Bacchus (statue, upper middle) were right up his alley. He depicted the numerous figures in a beautiful, not unduly symmetrical arrangement.
