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Portrait of Jacomo de Cachiopin (1578-1642) |
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The following is taken from the English part of the label accompanying the original displayed in Vienna (emphasis added):
‘When van Dyck returned to Antwerp from England for one year in 1634, he portrayed friends, both artists and patrons of the arts, including Jacomo de Cachiopin […]. Van Dyck and the passionate collector shared a common love of Venetian painting. This deep, mutual understanding may well explain the very private nature of the portrait. Cachiopin’s inward-looking state of mind is the expression of a melancholic temperament.’
Cachiopin may have had a hard day. He may even have been striking a melancholic pose cheerfully, or perhaps the artist chose to depict him this way, whether he looked like it or not. We know his name and that he collected things, but more information is needed to justify claims that the painting really does reveal his temperament and state of mind, especially if it were expected to do so, to say nothing of the one being an expression of the other. |
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