Pieter Codde

Pieter Codde ( born December 11, 1599 Amsterdam, † October 12, 1678 ) was a Dutch painter, mainly of genre paintings and portraits. He was an active as a poet.

Life

Partial is thought that he studied with Frans Hals, but more likely is a joint training with the portrait painter Barent van Someren (1572-1632) or possibly with Cornelis van der Voort ( 1576-1624 ). His earliest known work dates from 1626, Portrait of a Young Man, and is now in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

Most of his better known works were produced in Amsterdam and are small format paintings. Many of them have thematic references to the music, such as his first known genre painting, The Dance Lesson (Louvre) of 1627 Musical Society from 1639, The lute player (Philadelphia Museum of Art) and The concert, which today is in the Uffizi Gallery. The second hanging in the Uffizi picture of Codde is a genre painting, The Entertainment. But Codde also painted historical religious images, such as his Adoration of the Shepherds of 1645, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.