# 1609 in art

Events from the year 1609 in art.

## Events

* January 9 – Letters patent issued relating to accommodation and workshops for artists in the Louvre Palace mezzanine in Paris.
* Hans Krumpper becomes chief sculptor to the Bavarian court under Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria.
* Mesrop of Khizan paints a Gospel which ends up in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

## Paintings

* Caravaggio, The Raising of Lazarus
* Caravaggio, Adoration of the Shepherds
* Caravaggio, Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence
* Caravaggio, Salome with the Head of John the Baptist
* Rubens, Honeysuckle Bower
* Caravaggio
** The Raising of Lazarus
** Adoration of the Shepherds
** Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence
** Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Royal Palace of Madrid)
* Adam Elsheimer – The Flight into Egypt
* El Greco – Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple (San Ginés, Madrid)
* Peter Paul Rubens – some dates approximate
** Adoration of the Magi (original version for Antwerp City Hall)
** The Head of Saint John the Baptist Presented to Salome (c.)
** Honeysuckle Bower
** Judith Beheading Holofernes
** Portrait of a young woman with a rosary

## Births

* January 20 – Carlo Ceresa, Italian painter of portraitures, altarpieces and religious works (died 1679)
* March 1 (baptised) – Ambrosius Bosschaert the Younger, Dutch painter (died 1645)
* March 16 – Agostino Mitelli, Italian painter of quadratura (died 1660)
* March 23 (baptised) – Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian painter (died 1664)
* May 6 (baptised) – Antonie Waterloo, Dutch painter, publisher and draughtsman
* July 28 – Judith Leyster, Dutch painter of Haarlem (died 1660)
* August 25 – Giovanni Battista Salvi or Sassoferrato, Italian painter (died 1685)
* August 30 – Artus Quellinus the Elder, Flemish sculptor (died 1668)
* December 11 – Alexander Cooper, English Baroque miniature painter (died 1660)
* date unknown
** Jacob Adriaensz Backer, Dutch painter (died 1651)
** Giovanni Angelo Canini, Italian painter and engraver (died 1666)
** Giovanni Domenico Cerrini, Italian painter from the Bolognese School (died 1681)
** Samuel Cooper, English miniature painter (died 1672)
** Bernardino Gagliardi, Italian painter of the Baroque period (died 1660)
** Salomon Koninck, Dutch painter of genre scenes and portraits and engraver (died 1656)
** Carlo Francesco Nuvolone, Italian painter working in Lombardy (died 1661 or 1662)
** Tobias Pock, Austrian painter (died 1683)
** Herman Saftleven, Dutch painter of the Baroque period (died 1685)
** Giulio Cesare Venenti, Italian painter of landscapes and engraver (died 1697)
* probable
** François Collignon, French engraver, print-seller and publisher (died 1687)
** Domenico Gargiulo, Italian painter of landscapes (died 1675)

## Deaths

* July 15 – Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (born 1560)
* July 20 – Federico Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter and architect (born 1542/1543)
* October – Joseph Heintz the Elder, Swiss painter, draftsman and architect (born 1564)
* date unknown
** Giovanni Battista Armenini, Italian art historian and critic (born 1530)
** Aegidius Sadeler I, Flemish engraver of the Sadeler family (born 1555)
** Giusto Utens, Flemish painter of a series of Medicean villas (born unknown)
** Tiburzio Vergelli, Italian sculptor and founder (born 1551)