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Description: | Jan Both was born in Utrecht and travelled to France and then Rome, being recorded as living in there by July 1638. He returned to Utrecht around 1640. In 1649 he entered the Utrecht Guild. Influenced by the work of Claude Lorrain with whom he collaborated on a series of works for the Buen Retiro Palace in Madrid, he painted Italianate landscapes that in turn went on to greatly influence the work of other Dutch landscape painters. Few northern artists at this time were interested in using lighting effects to depict times of day as Both has in this painting. This is an early work that has not yet adopted the use of elaborate Claudian' compositions. Cooler colours that are used increasingly in his later works are suggested in this painting. The figures are believed to have been painted by Jan's brother, Andries, who drowned in Venice sometime between 1641 and 1650. | Subjects: | animal (donkey); landscape; everyday life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Both, Jan (Dutch painter, ca. 1618-1652) Æ Both, Andries Dirksz. (Dutch painter, printmaker, born 1611 or 1612, died 1641) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8865... | Go to resource |
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