Marten Jozef Geeraerts Explained

Marten Jozef Geeraerts
Birth Name:	Marten Jozef Geeraerts
Birth Place:	Antwerp, Belgium
Death Place:	Antwerp
Education:	Jesuits' College of Antwerp Antwerp Guild of St. Luke

Marten Jozef Geeraerts (1707–1791) was a Flemish historical painter. He excelled in grisaille painting in imitation of bas-reliefs.

Life

Born at Antwerp, he was intended for the law, and studied in the Jesuits' College. Preferring art, however, he became a pupil of Abraham Godijn, and was made free of the Guild of St. Luke in 1731. In 1741 he became one of the six directors of the Academy of Antwerp, who filled that office gratuitously. He died at Antwerp in 1791.

Major works

• Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp

The Fine Arts. 1760.

• Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

• • Christ and the Disciples at Bmmaus
  • The Saviour at the House of Simon the Pharisee
  • The Sons of Aaron punished by Fire from Heaven
  • The Woman taken in Adultery
  • Abraham and Melchisedeck
  • The Sacrifice of Abraham
  • The Sacrifice of Eli
• Mauritshuis

Autumn.

• Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

Children with Goat.

• Kunsthistorisches Museum

Cupid and Psyche.

Between 1756 and 1760 he produced nine grisaille tromp-l’œil paintings for the abbey church in Cambrai which later became the Cathedral of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Book: Lecompte . Denis . Notre Dame de Grâce . 2005 . Éditions du Signe . Strasbourg . 2-7468-0759-9 . 7.