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Description: | Signed: yes Description: This landscape is painted in the Italianate style which Wijnants developed in the 1660s. In the central foreground two groups of figures and animals are depicted; while conveying the scale of the landscape, these also bring variety to the composition. The pile of fallen tree-trunks is a common motif in the artist's landscapes from the 1670s. In the right foreground, the detailed depiction of flora and fauna demonstrates the artist's representational abilities. Wijnants became particularly popular in the eighteenth century, when his paintings were collected by the English aristocracy and also influenced artists including Boucher and Gainsborough. | Subjects: | landscape; figure; animal (dog horse) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Wijnants, Jan (Dutch painter, ca. 1635-1684) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8308... | Go to resource |
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