Peter Candid

1548–1628 · Mannerism

Peter de Witte, known in Italy as Pietro Candido and in Bavaria as Peter Candid was a Flemish-born Mannerist painter, tapestry designer and draughtsman active in Italy and Bavaria. He was an artist at the Medici court in Florence and at the Bavarian court of Duke William V and his successor Maximilian I in Munich.

10 paintings

• Lofzang op God door Koning David en de H. Cecilia
• Madonna with child, John the Baptist, St. Catherine and St. Elizabeth (1598)
• Aucupium – Allegory of bird hunting (1613)
• St. Margaret of Antioch (1550)
• The Annunciation (1585)
• Herzog Arnulf von Bayern (der Böse) (1603)
• Bildnis der Herzogin Magdalena von Bayern, Gemahlin Herzog Wolfgang Wilhelms von Pfalz-Neuburg, im Hochzeitsstaat (1597-1628) (1613)
• The Daughter of Jephtah (1600)
• Aeneas wird von Venus in den Olymp aufgenommen (1590)
• The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (1590)