Karel Breydel (Anversa 1678 - 1733)

Viandanti presso un villaggio

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

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Gerard Thomas (Anversa 1663 - 1720)? 
su un modello di Simon de Vos (Anversa 1603 - 1670)
L’ebrezza di Bacco

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,

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Venere dormiente, Marte e Cupido in un paesaggio

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

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Monogrammmista J.A.D. (Jacques De L’Ange) (attivo principalmente ad Anversa, 1621 ca.-1650 ca.) Salita al Calvario

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

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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

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Danza di putti in una campagna (Allegoria degli Elementi)

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

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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

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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Adriaen van Stalbempt
(Anversa 1580 - 1662) e collaboratore
Paesaggio fluviale con compagnia elegante

Fluvial Landscape with a Group of Courtiers

Adriaen van Stalbempt (Antwerp 1580-1662) and assistant Fluvial Landscape with a Group of Courtiers Oil on wood, 45.8 x 70.1 cm An idyllic image of the Flemish countryside, traversed by placid rivers reflecting the sky, trees, and buildings, this landscape shows echoes of Jan Brueghel the Elder in the structure

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Sebastiaen Vrancx (Antwerp 1573-1647) Landscape with Hunters and Wayfarers

Landscape with Hunters and Wayfarers

Sebastiaen Vrancx (Antwerp 1573-1647) Landscape with Hunters and Wayfarers Oil on wood, 52 x 76 cm Signed and dated at lower left with the monogram SV (entwined) / A [1]621 A more dramatic sensibility, associated with the example of Rubens, lends this scene, indebted to the modules of Jan Brueghel

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Hendrick van Balen (Anversa 1575 - 1632)

Madonna con Bambino e angeli

The Virgin and Child with Angels

Hendrick van Balen (Antwerp 1575-1632) The Virgin and Child with Angels Oil on copper, 30 x 23.7 cm The seductive grace and enamel-like handling of the paint, emphasized by the copper support, make this painting a little ‘jewel’ typical of the repertory of this Flemish artist active in the early

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