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| Keywords: Cornelisz, Cornelis, A Courting Couple and Woman with a Songbook, ca. 1594.jpg Artwork Creator Cornelis van Haarlem Catalogue Entry Cornelis 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 The 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 Gallery Label Cornelis Cornelisz �s painting shows a scene of temptation in which the attractions of music wine and love seduce his figures into indulgence in the pleasures of the senses Though the subject is explicitly secular the artist �s treatment of the male figure in particular recalls contemporary artistic representations of the Prodigal Son suggesting that an everyday interaction might take on moral dimensions of biblical proportions The woman whom he courts presents another negative example as her distant expression and loose grip on the wine glass betray her intoxicated state As the couple boldly reciprocates romantic advances and sustains longing looks the woman with the songbook engages the viewer directly with her own gaze This motif might be taken to implicate the viewer as a participant in the merrymaking unsettling the usual borders between the actual world and the painted one ca 1594 Oil on canvas Size cm 85 7 95 3 <br> frame Size cm 107 9 117 2 12 4 Institution Princeton University Art Museum European Art object history exhibition history credit line Museum purchase partial gift of Mr H Kelley Rollings Class of 1948 and Mrs Rollings accession number 1997-102 place of creation Princeton University Art Museum PD-old-100 1638 cite book Steward James Christen Princeton University Art Museum Handbook of the Collections Revised and Expanded Edition 2013 Princeton University Art Museum Princeton NJ 978-0943012414 2nd 191 cite web A Courting Couple and Woman with a Songbook 1997-102 http //artmuseum princeton edu/collections/objects/8515 Princeton University Art Museum European art in the Princeton University Art Museum 1594 European paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1594 Paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1594 Dutch paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1594 Paintings by Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem Paintings of couples Uploaded with UploadWizard | ||||
