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Description: | Cornelis van Poelenburgh was a Dutch painter, and the most important of the first generation of Dutch Italianates. The mainly Mannerist style of the the Utrecht and Amsterdam artists, inspired by the paintings of Adam Elsheimer and contemporary Italian art, was a permanent influence on his work. This painting shows great similarities with van Poelenburgh's Women Bathing in a Classical Landscape now in the National Gallery, London. The composition and the ruins in the background are almost identical, and on stylistic grounds the London painting has been dated to around 1630. The two works are also of similar size. A drawing of very similar ruins can also be found at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. | Subjects: | landscape; figure; buildings and gardens | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Poelenburgh, Cornelis van (Dutch painter and draftsman, 1594 or 1595-1667) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8647... | Go to resource |
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