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JAN FRANS VAN BLOEMEN (workshop of)
(Antwerp, 1662 - Rome, 1…
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Lot no. 94
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JAN FRANS VAN BLOEMEN (workshop of)
(Antwerp, 1662 - Rome, 1749)
Roman Countryside Landscape with Figures
Oil on oval canvas, 81.5X60 cm
Provenance:
Rome, private collection
Bibliography:
A. Busiri Vici, Jan Frans van Bloemen Horizon and the Origin of the Eighteenth-Century Roman Landscape, Rome 1974, no. R20 (as Jan Frans van Bloemen's workshop)
This fine landscape is exemplary evidence of the workshop of Jan Frans van Bloemen, an artist who can be considered one of the leading landscape painters active in the Eternal City between the 17th and 18th centuries, capable of depicting the Roman countryside with extraordinary idyllic sensitivity and atmospheric luminosity. His views depicting classical vestiges, rural villages and the Tiber Valley delighted collectors not unfamiliar with ancient history and literature. In the Baroque age, these places were the favourite destination of Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin, some of the best interpreters of the classical ideal that, according to Jonathan Skelton, they had both inferred by sojourning beyond the Aurelian Walls, and Bloemen was undoubtedly one of the best descendants of this extraordinary tradition. Returning to the canvas under examination, apart from its quality and beautiful preservation, it reveals its geographical objectivity by depicting the outline of a rural village in the background.
Reference bibliography:
Luigi Salerno, I pittori di vedute in Italia (1580-1830), Bozzi, Rome 1991, pp. 120-121
La Pittura di Paesaggio in Italia. Il Seicento, edited by L. Trezzani, Milan 2004, pp. 357-360
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