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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Christopher Wright describes Pynacker as 'the last of the great Italianising landscapists' (Wright, 1989). He probably worked in Italy early in his career. He was influenced by the landscapes of Jan Both and Jan Asselyn. This landscape is notable for Pynacker's use of light to dramatise the intricacy of the foliage and decaying tree stumps in the middle distance. Harwood dates this picture to about 1657, noting that it includes one of the first instances of Pynacker's recurring motif of a gnarled decaying birch tree stump, and also the foliage of wild cabbage in the foreground which was to reappear in landscapes of the first half of the 1660s. The herdsman in the lower right hand corner appears in Pynacker's earlier work. Here he counts eggs in a bird's nest - a motif for which Pynacker may be indebted to Rotterdam artists, Jacob Ochtervelt or Eglon van der Neer. | Subjects: | landscape | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Pynacker, Adam (Dutch painter and printmaker, ca. 1620-1673) Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8383... | Go to resource |
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