Jan Joost van Cossiau (1662–c.1732) was a Flemish landscape painter and engraver.
[Jan Joost van Cossiau ]
at the Netherlands Institute for Art History
Life
Jan was born in
Roeselare, Belgium 30 August 1662, first son of the local GP Judocus Cossiau, and Jacoba de Burchgrave. He was baptised as Carolus Jacobus Cossiau, after his maternal grandfather who was his godfather. However, Cossiau must have been called Jan after his paternal grandfather who died a few months before his birth, but traditionally would have been his godfather otherwise. He spent most of his career in
Frankfurt am Main. In Germany his sister Isabella lived with him, most likely as housekeeper/maid. His landscapes usually include people, and also often buildings and cattle. They are in the “Italian style” and generally resemble those of
Gaspard Dughet (1613–1675). Cossiau worked for
Lothar Franz von Schönborn at his
electoral court
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, as well as at his
Schloss Weißenstein (castle). He was also director of the electoral gallery at
Pommersfelden, where he established the final directory of paintings, after the first survey by Johann Rudolph Bys. In order to extend his gallery, Lothar Franz sent his two gallery directors often to the Netherlands and Italy.
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/ref> Jan Joost van Cossiau died around 1732, maybe around Mainz.
References
* Bauereisen, Hildegard, ''Der kurmainzische Hofmaler Jan Joost van Cossiau, ein spätbarocker Landschaftsmaler'', New York, P. Lang, 1986.
* Bott, Katharina, ''Jan Joost Van Cossiau: Delitiae Imaginum, Oder Wohl-Erlaubte Gemahlde Und Bilder-Lust Die Gemaldesammlung Des Lothar Franz Von Schonborn in Schloss Gaibach
Schloss Gaibach (full title: Gräflich Schönborn’sches Schloss Gaibach or Comital Schönborn Castle at Gaibach) is a castle in Gaibach, a district of the town of Volkach in Germany. Previously the residence of the counts of Schönborn, it no ...
/Unterfranken Die Gemaldekatalog Von Jan Joost Van Cossiau Aus Dem Jahre 1721'', Weimar, VDG, 2000.
* Bryan, Michael, Robert Edmund Graves, Walter Armstrong, ''Dictionary of Painters and Engravers'', G. Bell and Sons, 1886, 315.
* Thieme, Ulrich and Felix Becker, ''Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart'', Reprint of 1907 edition, Leipzig, Veb E.A. Seemann Verlag, 1980–1986.
Gallery
File:'Fete de Village', painting by Jan Joost van Cossiau.jpg, ''Village feast'', painting by Jan Joost van Cossiau, 1st quarter of 18th century
File:'Rastande herdar i skogslandskap' engraving by Jan Joost van Cossiau.jpg, ''Resting herdsmen in woodland'' engraving by Jan Joost van Cossiau
Footnotes
External links
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1732 deaths
17th-century Flemish painters
18th-century Flemish painters
Flemish landscape painters
17th-century German people
18th-century German people
German people of Flemish descent
1662 births