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Aleksandr Ivanovich Nelidov [Russian, 1835–1910, served as\nan ambassador in Rome, Paris, Constantinople] (ca. 19th century; to\nprivate collection); private collection, Mexico (ca. 19th century–;\nsold to La Granja); La Granja, Calle Bolivar, Mexico City (–1967; sold to\nRollings); Mr. and Mrs. H. Kelley Rollings (1967–1997; gift to Princeton\nUniversity Art Museum).

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In this early genre painting, Cornelis presents three figures whose relationship to one another is unclear. The alert woman looking out at the viewer holds a songbook; her bodice is buttoned to the top. The woman in pink, whose décolletage is pronounced and whose expression is unfocused, holds a glass of red wine. With her gesture, is she rebuffing or encouraging the man who embraces her? The painting evokes the saying, “wine, women, and song.” It might also refer to the theme of the Prodigal Son who squanders his inheritance on fast living. Or it might more generally allude to the temptations of the senses. As a contrast to the drinker, does the woman in yellow represent more upright and morally acceptable behavior? Intentional ambiguity encouraged contemporaries to puzzle out the meanings of such images. 


","remarks":"Looking at 17th century Dutch Painting\r\nFall 2020\r\n"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Handbook Entry","textentryhtml":"\r\nCornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem portrays a simple yet delicate temptation scene. The gentleman is poised to embrace the drunken woman on the left. We, too, are offered the lure of wine, women, and song, as his companion’s glass tips precariously forward. The woman on the right turns to us, a songbook in her lap. Despite the moral ­dubiousness of the scene, Cornelisz. renders the balanced half-length figures in elegant curves ­silhouetted against a mysteriously dark interior.

\r\nThe painting bears witness to a change in the artist’s style following the return of his fellow ­Haarlem painter Hendrik Goltzius from Italy. Cornelisz. eschews the complexities of his earlier works in favor of a few large-scale figures set in a dark, shallow space reminiscent of Caravaggio’s innovations. This painting’s pastel tones and the figures’ egg-shaped heads, however, are far from the realism of the Dutch followers of Caravaggio. Cornelisz.’s simple, elegant composition dignifies and refines a moralizing subject based on the wasted youth of the Prodigal Son.

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