Classical Landscape with Fishermen
Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1682 - 1749
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1630 x 2290 x 100 mm; 42.5 kg (weight)
Place of origin
Italy
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Osterley Park and House, London
NT 771209
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Classical Landscape with Fishermen by Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749). A landscape image with figures in the centre in eighteenth century costume fishing from a lake, beside a grounded boat, above them a large classical urn on a plinth, while in the background, a small village on the peak of a hill. Orizzonte was the major and most prolific landscape painter working in Rome after the death of Gaspard [Dughet] Poussin. His works were much sought after, both for the galleries of Roman 'palazzi', and by those making the Grand Tour. With time, his pictures became formulaic, though always pleasing. This painting, though employing his compositional formulae, is painted with a impasto and a tenebrous palette that owes more to the landscapes of Salvator Rosa, and it may have been painted in the Veneto, by some such artist as Antonio Marini, 1668-1725
Provenance
On loan from a private collection
Makers and roles
Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749) , artist