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JAN MASSYS

I googled "who was the guy who slept with his daughters in the Bible." I found this amazing painting:


That got me interested in the painter Jan Massijs or Jan Matsys and that painting isn't even on his page. I put the various versions of his name into Amazon and there were no books about him. What?

There is a book in Dutch, but they don't even carry the author on Amazon.us. Wikipedia does have quite a trove of photos of his paintings and closeups of various details.

"He also gained a reputation as a painter of the female nude, which he painted with a sensuality reminiscent of the school of Fontainebleau."

The local museum only has one painting of him. Maybe more, it's confusing. It's in gallery 521.

The Louvre in Paris has one; The Moneylender and his wife.

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna has The Merry Company and the above painting. And one more.

Susanna and the Elders is at Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Palazzo Bianco, Genoa has Carita, and 2 others.

This blog devoted to nudity in art has a collection online.

He was born in Antwerp, and his father is supposedly more famous than him:


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