Gonzales Coques: 8 works

'Gonzales Coques is known mainly for his informal portraits of the middle-class. He was influenced by Anthony van Dyck, which earned him the sobriquet kleine van Dyck (the little van Dyck).'

'More recently the seemingly Flemish, relaxed and generous painting style had been thought to show the stylistic qualities of the Antwerp genre and portrait painter Gonzales Coques.'

'Coques also seeks to emulate the informality with which Rubens depicts his own family, an effect which can also be see in Philip Fruytiers's watercolour of 'Four Children of Peter Paul Rubens and Helena Fourment with Two Maids' of 1638-9.'

'Gonzales Coques painted two series of paintings devoted to the five senses, the other of which is currently in the National Gallery, London.'

'In the series in the Brukenthal Art Gallery, the painter emphasizes the psychological states of his sitters, apparently common people, from the lower middle class.'