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Description: | Signed: yes Description: This painting is by Thomas Halleman, a little known late seventeenth-century Dutch artist who specialised in portraits and history paintings. He studied in Florence and Rome where he gained success producing miniature paintings. This work, showing a courting couple in a pastoral setting, may be a portrait piece. During the seventeenth century, aristocrats began to have themselves painted in the guise of saints or mythological characters. The elaborate statue of the nymph situates the encounter in a villa garden, a space associated with the type of bodily pleasures indicated by the goat and the horn lying on the ground. | Subjects: | landscape; figure; portrait; animal (goat) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Halleman, Thomas (Dutch artist, 1665-1690) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8317... | Go to resource |
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