Dutch Military Scene – Circle of Duyster, Soldiers Dividing War Spoils, c.1700

1680

Reverse glass painting with siege scene and military encampment, 18th century, Venice (?) Dimensions: 22.5 x 29 cm Reverse glass painting depicting a siege scene before a fortified...

ARTIST - Northern Painter Active in Italy // PERIOD - First Half of the 17th Century // ORIGIN - Italy // MEDIUM - Oil on Wood Panel // STYLE - Flemish-Dutch Italianate Landscape, La...

Soldiers looting a village XVII century oil on panel Oil on panel: 75 x 110 cm Signed and dated 1650 lower left Sold at Christie's Amsterdam, 11/18/93 For 130,000 DG = 60,827 € - joint purchase invoice for the year 93 About painter dutch painter Utrecht 1586 - 1666 Utrecht Painter of genre scenes, generally of peasants, views and landscapes of villages and towns (including some winter landscapes) and some religious and allegorical subjects (mainly at the beginning of his career). We do not know under whom our painter studied. Seeing the Flemish character of his work, some scholars believe that he could have studied in Flanders, in Antwerp. Droochsloot was a versatile and productive painter. The central museum in his hometown of Utrecht holds 15 of his paintings, showing the diversity of his work, many other museums exhibit his works Our painting represents a scene that took place during the Eighty Years' War. This Dutch War of Independence from Spain was a long, slow war that lasted from 1568 to 1648. The war began with a Protestant uprising in Flanders and Holland against the Spanish...

After Simon Johannes van Douw (Antwerp c. 1630 - c. 1677) The stop of a traveler on horseback near a post station Oil painting on canvas 45 x 55 cm In frame cm. 55 x 65 In this pleasant painting, depicting a knight parked near a post station, the Flemish tradition is based on a strong Italianizing sensitivity, especially by observing the setting and its peculiar brightness. The mixture of genres and the particular style of execution make it easy to trace the authorship back to a Nordic author but active in Rome, or strongly influenced by the style in vogue in the Eternal city, between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: we are referring, in in particular, to a follower of the Antwerp Simon Johannes van Douw. The chromatic elegance and refinement with which he outlines the figures are typical aspects of his painting. The scene takes place outside a cottage, probably a post office for travelers, where a modest family divides the tasks by assisting the knights. We see a young boy who hands water to the horse before he sets off again, the father is preparing to feed him with straw and the mother who instead takes care of the little son. The Italian reminiscences, evident in our painting, have been absorbed by many Northern European authors such as Nicolaes Berchem, Philips Wouwerman or Johannes Lingelbach, all inspired by the leader Pieter van Laer...