#Jan de Baen

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[gyossefka]

“The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers” by Jan de Baen.

[brujasvascas]

The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers,  c.1672 Jan de Baen

[stigmatam4rtyr]

The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers (between 1672-1675, oil on canvas) | Jan de Baen

[whineofglass]

The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers

[greppelheks]

The mutilated corpses of Johan and Cornelis de Witt, Jan de Baen (1672-1675)

[leofwines]

[lemuseum]

[elixir]

The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers Jan de Baen — 1675

[pmamtraveller]

JAN DE BAEN - THE CORPSES OF THE DE WITT BROTHERS, 1675

In 1672, the major European powers united and launched an attack on the Dutch Republic, posing a danger of overwhelming the nation. This cost the De Witt brothers, Johan and Cornelis, their lives. De Baen's artwork illustrates their lifeless bodies suspended at the Groene Zoodje on the Vijverberg in The Hague. Johan de Witt served as the Pensionary (the actual leader) of Holland, the most influential province. He was killed by a carefully planned lynch "mob" following his visit to his brother Cornelis de Witt in jail. He was lured into this trap by a forged letter.

The aftermath of this interaction, captured in this artwork, is disturbing, to say the least. Stripped of their garments, the siblings were suspended upside down from a wooden beam. They were castrated and disemboweled. Protesters severed fingers, toes, tongues, and noses to trade as keepsakes. A man is thought to have twisted the neck of a stray cat, the carcass of which he inserted into the open cavity where Cornelis’ penis used to be. Every bruise, cut, and amputation was integrated into the artwork.

Witness accounts assert that Johan's body was displayed higher than that of his brother. The rioters did so because he held the most powerful office in the country, and this aspect was noted by de Baen as he envisioned his artwork. As the De Witts lost numerous distinguishing features, it becomes challenging to identify which of the two figures in "Corpses" is supposed to represent which brother. Thankfully, an inscription on the back of the canvas dispels much of the ambiguity:

These are the corpses of Johan and Cornelis de Witt, made by a prominent painter from life as they hung from the post at eleven o’clock in the evening. Cornelis is the one without a wig. Johan de Witt still has his own hair

The painter was, after all, not present at the lynching. Other draftsmen were, and their sketches appeared in newspapers that de Baen then cross referenced to construct his own version of the events. Despite his remoteness from the incident, his interpretation continues to be treated as a kind of hand-painted photograph: an honest, accurate, and reliable depiction of a historical event.

[edgarallanpoestan]

have u considered: celltw

(i havent webweave-d (webwoven?) before and WILL be improving with time. hopefully ^-^ there are a lot of fantastic works i couldnt include, or only included small pieces of, so ill work on getting better and utilizing space so that i can include more :])

credit and alt 3rd part below cut

SOURCES:

1st Weave: Galleria Dantesca (Filippo Bigioli), Alice Madness Returns concept art, @jenniferleecopping, The Cannibal's Canción (Gloria Anzaldúa), Cannibal (Ke$ha), bones and all poem (@lovemeeatmebonesandall), Cannibalism Wikipedia, Animal Impluses (@pacbite)

2nd Weave: Crusader Atrocities Bibliotheque Nationale De France, Dante and Virgil (William-Adolphe Bouguereau), The Cannibal (Baths of Titus), untitled poem (@rotnik-tmblr), Cannibalism headline @/vintagenews, "I love you" post (@runaroundhound), Institutionalized Cannibalism (Cannibalism Wikipedia), Eat Your Heart Out (@mochitoaster)

3rd Weave: @/milkwhiteteeth, De Lijken van de Gebroeders de Witt (Jan de Baen), untitled poem (@honeyandbloodpoetry), the meal (@frightenedbythesound), Cannibal (Tally Hall), Human Cannibalism Wikipedia, Carnivore Animal (@federation-cucurucho), I must do to understand

thank you to all the lovely artists and writers who gave me permission to use their works, i highly recommend checking out all of their blogs!!!!! they are all incredibly sweet and skilled :>

ALT 3RD PART (too cluttered for me):

[radfemsiren]

What are your thoughts on the red light district. Everyone just talks about it so casually and there r so many yt vid of men vlogging their time there. It honestly kinda icky. The way people (men) talk about the women who work there, which I'm sure is not a choice they chose happily.

Hmm how I feel about the red light district is perfectly articulated in the tv show Killing Eve, season 2, episode 4…

For those who don’t watch the show, the female assassin dresses up as a prostitute, goes to the red light district, and waits for a John. When he makes his move, she attacks.

She hangs him upside down and cuts down his torso, disemboweling him, and recreating a painting she saw earlier in the season and grew fond of: “The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers” by Dutch artist Jan de Baen.

[liefdesleven]

real men - mitski // roberto ferri // deer on the side of an american highway - devin kelly // preliminary study for the kiss - edvard munch // the islands, 1961 - victoria chang // roberto ferri // stigmata: escaping texts - hélène cixous // de lijken van de gebroeders De Witt - jan de baen // punished body - silas denver melvin, @sweatermuppet

[lauren-adassovsky]

Inspired by Nattier, Jan de Baen and Jeremias Schultz

[aquitainequeen]

It would be that, while journeying through the Rijksmuseum, the picture I took the second most photos of was The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers, attributed to Jan de Baen. I remembered it well from my first visit so many years ago. It does tend to stick in the mind and refuse to be dug out.

Instead of including that picture, here's one of a bust of Johan de Witt before all that awful stuff happened to him.

[victusinveritas]

The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers - Jan de Baen, 1675.

Pictured below are two other views of their rather icky end. Below that are what they looked like before having their wigs split.

The De Witt brothers were popular figures in 17th century Dutch politics until one day they were not so popular with an angry mob. The mob wasn't entirely wrong: they blamed the De Witts for the Dutch Republic getting its ass kicked in a war against the French. Tried for treason, Cornelius de Witt was sentenced to exile and his brother Johan was made to quit his cabinet post in the government. The crowd outside thought this was a slap on the wrist and expressed their displeasure promptly. The mob lynched them and tore the brothers to shreds. Jan de Baen did not miss the opportunity to show a good spur of the moment anatomizing when he had the chance.