January, with the Sign of Aquarius, Jan Kamphuijsen, 1791 Canvas Print
As the inscription at the bottom mentions, the subject of this painting is the month of January. The sign of the aquarius is depicted as a naked man pouring a jug of water. The peacock and lion are attributes of Juno, the patron goddess of January. This peacock and the harp above it are taken from the tapestry series Le Douze Mois Grotesques, designed by Claude III Audran (1658-1734), designed around 1709, which was presented in print by Jean Audran (1667-1756). Both motifs appear in January on the print with the first two months. The mirrored winged man figures may go back to similar female figures in the loggia of Raphael (1483-1520), which Maderna may have known, among other things, from the prints of Giovanni Volpato (1735-1803) and Giovanni Ottaviani (ca. 1735-1808) in Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano (1776-1777, see vol. 1, no. IX). This painting is part of a series of pilaster panels (SK-A-4142 t/m SK-A-4150), commissioned by Josephus Augustus Brentano (1753-1821) for his house Herengracht 544.
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