Daniel Rabel
Illustration — Lilium martagon from "Theatrum florae" (1624) • Illustration — "Ballet de la Douairière de Billebahaut" "Entrée de la Douairière et de ses dames" Daniel Rabel (1578 – 3 January 1637) was a Renaissance French painter, engraver, miniaturist, botanist and natural history illustrator. He was the son of Jean Rabel (1545–1603) who was official artist at the court of Henri III. Rabel was first employed as a portrait painter by Marie de Medicis, the second wife of Henry IV of France. He served as Engineer in Ordinary for the King for the provinces of Brie and Champagne.
Daniel Rabel
Daniel Rabel · Web Gallery of Art: Image Info about artwork wga QS:P11807,"r/rabel/ballet1" · Public domain
- Born
- 1578 · Paris.
- Died
- 1637 · Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- painter · botanist · printmaker · interior designer
- Fields
- portrait
- Movements
- Baroque
- Teachers
- Jean Rabel
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Lilium martagon from "Theatrum florae" (1624) • Illustration — "Ballet de la Douairière de Billebahaut" "Entrée de la Douairière et de ses dames" Daniel Rabel (1578 – 3 January 1637) was a Renaissance French painter, engraver, miniaturist, botanist and natural history illustrator. He was the son of Jean Rabel (1545–1603) who was official artist at the court of Henri III. Rabel was first employed as a portrait painter by Marie de Medicis, the second wife of Henry IV of France. He served as Engineer in Ordinary for the King for the provinces of Brie and Champagne.
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Born at Paris in 1578, died in Paris in 1637.
Training under Jean Rabel is recorded. Gabriel Pérelle is recorded as having studied under Daniel Rabel. The recorded working language is French. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Positions recorded include court painter. Work by Daniel Rabel is recorded in the collections of Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Daniel Rabel - The Royal Ballet of the Dowager of Bilbao's Grand Ball - WGA18593
Daniel Rabel · Web Gallery of Art: Image Info about artwork wga QS:P11807,"r/rabel/ballet2"
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- 1.Daniel Rabel's "Grotesque" Depictions of Ballet – Micheline's Blog. Micheline's Blog. 10 August 2012.
- 2.Christie?s. Daniel Rabel (?1578–1637), Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717), John Johnston (1603–1675) & Nicolas Robert (1614–1685).
- 3.Early Theatre.
- 4.Vivien Richard. "Dansé par le Roi" : Le ballet burlesque au Louvre sous Louis XIII. Grande Galerie – le Journal du Louvre. 53. 26. Winter 2020–2021.
- 5.BibliOdyssey. 30 July 2012.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 7
- VK Preston, "Baroque Relations: Performing Silver and Gold in Daniel Rabel's 'Ballets of the Americas.'" In The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Reenactment, ed. Mark Franko. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2017 [2018 online]. .
- Daniel Rabel, Cent fleurs et insectes
- Daniel Rabel, Livre de differants desseings de parterres 1600–1640
- Daniel Rabel, Theatrum florae 1627
- Daniel Rabel, Cartouches de diferentes inuentions tres utilles a plussieurs sortes de personnes 1632
- E. T. Hamy, Jean Le Roy de la Boissière et Daniel Rabel, peintres d'histoire naturelle du commencement du XVIIe siècle ... Editor: Paris, Masson et cie
- Léo R. Schidlof, La Miniature en Europe, Graz, Akademiche Druck Verlagsanstalt, 1964, vol. II (M-Z).
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