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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Thomas Heeremans was a landscape painter from Haarlem, and a follower of Claes Molenaer. This animated village scene is typical of his work, and the same village can be seen from different angles in other paintings by him. The scene depicts a village fair, one of the games being to suspend a goose on a pulley over the river, and for the villagers in boats to compete to snatch it. Heeremans has captured the gaiety of the scene, whilst also setting it in a typically Dutch landscape. The enthusiasm of the villagers is echoed in his use of lively, sketch-like brushstrokes. | Subjects: | landscape; townscape; buildings and gardens; everyday life; figure; animal (goose) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Heeremans, Thomas (Dutch painter, ca. 1640-1697) Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to Maes, Nicolaes (Dutch painter, 1634-1693) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8409... | Go to resource |
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