Pieter Jacobsz. Codde was born in Amsterdam, where he seems to have spent most of his life and where he died in 1678. Nothing is certain about his training, but when he married in 1623 he was registered as a painter. In 1637, he was called to finish a large group portrait initially commissioned by the Amsterdam civic guards in 1633 from Frans Hals ('The Meagre Company', Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum). Codde was mainly a portrait and genre painter, but he also made historical compositions.
Pieter Codde
1599 - 1678
Works by Pieter Codde
Pieter Codde was an Amsterdam painter who specialised in genre scenes of everyday life. And this is just how A Woman Holding a Mirror of 1625, his earliest known work, can be seen. An attractive and well-dressed woman has tried on various outfits – a discarded dress lies on the table – and is now...
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In this painting of 1640 of a well-to-do but unremarkable Dutch family, Pieter Codde’s challenge was to give life to a static scene. The sitters are unknown, although it has been suggested that they are Hendricus Meursius and Judith Cotermans with their son. Whatever their identity, their fine cl...
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