Tátrai Vilmos szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 90-91.(Budapest, 1999)

EMBER, ILDIKÓ: Some Minor Masters on the Peripheries of Rembrandt's Circle

71. Rombout van Troyen: Allegorical Conclusion of Peace. Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts in its expanded 1967 edition assigned it to the oeuvre of Jacob Symonsz. Pynas, on the basis of an analogous example published in Volume 13 of "Belvedere".

4 He interpreted the subject as an allegory of a peace treaty, and hypothetically connected it to the Peace of Zsitvatorok (1606). Citing certain weaknesses of drawing, Agnes Czobor believed this small panel to be by Pynas' elder brother Jan, while noting a certain similarity to the landscape drawings of Jacob Pynas.*' However, having compared our painting to the works of the Pynas brothers, who had visited Rome together with Lastman in 1605, we - sharing Astrid Tümpel

's opinion - must exclude the possibility of their authorship.

6 Whether we compare it with works by Jan,

7 who was closer to Lastman and Elsheimer, or to those by Jacob,

8 who was about ten years his junior, in spite of all similarities we cannot ignore the contrast manifested by the coarser, broader execution of the Budapest panel. Therefore we must look for a master who may have been in close contact with the Pynas brothers, and was aware of Lastman's style through them, but came to realize his individual manner elsewhere. Rombout van Troyen (16051656) of Amsterdam fits this description, having lived in Jan Pynas's household for 4 Pigler, A., Katalog der Galerie Alter Meister, Budapest 1967, p. 563. 5 Czobor, op. cit. (Note 1) No. 3. 6 A. Tümpel during her 1981 visit to Budapest categorically rejected the attribution to Pynas, but did not suggest an alternative solution. 7 See for instance his paintings from 1613 and 1614 showing The Expulsion of Hagar, based on a composition by Lastman, at Suermondt-Ludwig Museum in Aachen and the Museum het Rembrandthuis in Amsterdam. 8 For example. Nebuchadnezzar Regains the Kingship, Alte Pinakothek, Munich Inv. No. 13151; Adoration of the Magi, Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Inv. No. 1959.103.