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Lot description
Signed and dated centre left: Joan v. Noordt. f. 1663 The present painting shows a scene from the play "Granida" written in 1605 by P. C. Hooft, which was very popular as a model for Dutch painting in the 17th century. This scene from Act 1 shows the first encounter of the Persian princess Granida with the shepherd Daifilo and his lover Dorilea. Daifilo offers the thirsty princess water in a mussel shell and falls in love with her. After the usual baroque entanglements and intrigues, the two finally become a couple. Jan van Noordt had taken up the theme 18 years earlier, at the beginning of his artistic career, in a painting that is now in the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney (cf. de Witt, op. cit., p. 150, no. 33). The present, later version of the subject shows a much lighter colouring in comparison, whereby in particular the graceful figure of Granida in her elegant, silvery silk robe and the light skin contrasts effectively with the shepherd couple rendered in earthier tones. This work, which has been widely published, can be traced back to 1772, when it came up for sale in an auction in Leiden as lot 1.