Cornelis Saftleven

1607–1681 · Baroque

Cornelis Saftleven was a Dutch painter who worked in a great variety of genres. Known in particular for his rural genre scenes, his range of subjects was very wide and included portraits, farmhouse interiors, rural and beach scenes, landscapes with cattle, history paintings, scenes of Hell, allegories, satires and illustrations of proverbs.

36 paintings

• A Witches' Sabbath (c. 1650)
• Scene in a tavern (1637)
• Two dogs in a landscape
• Landscape with Figures, Cattle and Household Utensils (1630)
• Drinking Company outside a Tavern (1651)
• A kitchen interior with a figure seated in the adjoining room (1680)
• Landscape with a farmyard (1650)
• A barn interior with a still life with kitchen utensils in the foreground, together with a woman and a child preparing food in the background, and a man leaning in a doorway (1634)
• Job seated on a dunghill between his wife and his three friends (Job 1-42) (1650)
• Self portrait of Cornelis Saftleven (1607-1681) with Herman Saftleven (1609-1685) (1634)
• La Soif de l'or
• Orphée et Eurydice aux Enfers
• The Annunciation to the Shepherds (1660)
• Scheuneninterieur (1672)
• Die Versuchung des heiligen Antonius (1681)
• College Animals (1655)
• A young man with two goats (1645)
• "Who sues for a cow" (1629)
• A Witches' Sabbath (1650)
• The Vision of the Sunday Child (1660)
• Funeral of a rich man (1631)
• The egg dance. (1637)
• Two Pigs (1657)
• Heads of Sheep (1644)
• Cattle Market before a Church (1670)
• Farmer's interior with a cleaning girl (1632)
• Kühe
• Self-portrait with Easel (1629)
• Landscape with Herdsmen and Cattle (1660)
• Figures before a Village Inn (1642)
• Landscape with animals (1652)
• The annunciation to the shepherd (1650)
• Satire on the trial of Johan van Oldenbarneveldt (1663)
• Portrait of Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (1547-1619) (1663)
• Søndagsbarnets syn (1660)
• Køkkeninteriør (1622-1681)