Landscape with Village, Peasants, and Wayfarers
Pieter de Molijn (London 1595 – Haarlem 1661) Landscape with Village, Peasants, and Wayfarers Oil on canvas, 96.5 x 142.5 cm Signed at lower left PMolijn [initials joined together] 1656 In the contrast between the solid depiction of the foreground, the less well-defined horizon and the large space allotted to
Landscape with Shepherds and Animals Near a River
Moyses van Wtenbrouck (or Uyttenbroeck) (The Hague 1595-1647) Landscape with Shepherds and Animals Near a River Oil on wood (oak), 43.3 x 63.3 cm Signed at lower right Mo van wtenbrouck/ 16. Depicting a hilly landscape with shepherds and their flocks resting near a waterway that runs through a luminous
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
Carlo Antonio Procaccini (Bologna 1571 – Milan? 1630?) Rest on the Flight into Egypt Oil on wood, 34 x 48 cm An example of the interest in Flemish painting that flourished in Milan around Federico Borromeo, Carlo Antonio Procaccini here borrows his figures from an engraving of 1593 by his
Wayfarers at a Village
Karel Breydel (Antwerp 1678-1733) Wayfarers at a Village Oil on wood, 30.5 x 40.5 cm This artist painted numerous scenes of village life in the style of Jan Brueghel the Elder (Antwerp 1568-1625), transmitting into the eighteenth century, alongside other fellow artists in Antwerp and Brussels, the tradition of landscape
The Drunken Bacchus
Gerard Thomas (Antwerp 1663 – 1720)? after a model by Simon de Vos (Antwerp 1603-1670) The Drunken Bacchus Oil on canvas, 69.4 x 86.8 cm The painting shows a band of drinkers headed by the corpulent Bacchus with two satyrs revelling around a table laden with delicacies (oysters, a lobster,
Sleeping Venus, Mars and Cupid in a Landscape
Frans de Neve the Younger (Antwerp ca. 1630 – after 1693?), attributed Sleeping Venus, Mars and Cupid in a Landscape Oil on wood, 50.7 x 65.4 cm In this painting, references to antiquity are joined with a classicizing landscape and a reddish-brown palette recalling Venetian painting: evocations translated into a
The Way to Calvary
J.A.D. (monogram of Jacques De l’Ange) (active mainly in Antwerp, ca. 1621 – ca. 1650) The Way to Calvary Oil on copper, 51 x 64.5 cm Elements of Flemish Late Mannerism, light effects that suggestion an experience of Caravaggio, a thrust towards Rubens and a chromatic range showing a debt
Diana and Callisto in a Landscape
Jacques d’Arthois (Brussels 1613-1683), circle and a Figure Painter of the Brussels School (?), third quarter of the seventeenth century Diana and Callisto in a Landscape Oil on copper, 69.6 x 86.5 cm The painting, showing Zeus disguised as Diana seducing the nymph Callisto (Ovid, Metamorphoses), can be assigned to
Dancing Putti in a Country Landscape (Allegory of the Elements)
Pieter van Avont (Mechelen 1600-Antwerp 1652) with Isaac van Oosten (Antwerp 1613-1661)? and Jan van Kessel the Elder (Antwerp 1626-1679)? Dancing Putti in a Country Landscape (Allegory of the Elements) Oil on wood, 43.7 x 64 cm Signed at lower right with the monogram PvA The painting is an example
Rest on the Flight into Egypt, with the Temple of Hercules Victor at the Forum Boarium in Rome
Willem van Nieulandt the Younger (Antwerp 1584 – Amsterdam 1635) Rest on the Flight into Egypt, with the Temple of Hercules Victor at the Forum Boarium in Rome Oil on wood, 38 x 49.5 cm The subject is an ancient monument which the painter, who was in Rome between 1601
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