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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Though Jan Baptiste Huysman's landscapes have been much confused in the past with those of his elder brother, Cornelis, the fact that the Shipley work is signed and dated has allowed more of his oeuvre to be distinguished. A key example of Antwerp landscape painting in the latter years of the seventeenth century, the handling of the landscape is quite conventional - a delicate fusion of North European wooded landscape with the Italian inspired vista. However in the treatment of the ruins, Huysmans turns to the type of architecture first popularised by Claude Lorraine in Rome. As in the famous painting by Claude's contemporary Nicolas Poussin, this work is close to being an Et in Arcadia Ego, as the structure on which the artist's signature is painted is clearly a tomb. The viewer is given a glimpse of a pastoral idyll, whilst being reminded of the closeness of death. | Subjects: | landscape; figure; animal (sheep) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Huysmans, Jan Baptiste (Flemish painter, 1654-1716) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8422... | Go to resource |
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