Jan Miel
Landscape with farrier oil on canvas by Jan Miel

Name: Landscape with farrier oil on canvas by Jan Miel
Brand: Jan Miel
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Jan Miel (Beveren-Waas, 1599 - Turin, 1663) Roman countryside landscape with farrier Oil on canvas, 114.5 x 146 cm Framed, 132 x 162 cm Published on the portal of the Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis Jan Miel known as Giovanni Miel or also Giovannino delle Vite (Beveren-Waas, 1599 - Turin, 1663) was a Flemish painter active in Italy, particularly in Rome, in the group of the Scuola dei Bamboccianti, whose main exponent was Pieter van Laer, an artist who spread the interest of depicting daily life in the Eternal City. Born in Beveren-Waas (Antwerp) in 1599, a pupil of Gerard Seghers and probably also of Antoon van Dyck, Miel is documented in Rome starting in 1636 (although it is likely that he had already arrived there three years earlier), influenced by that generation of Dutch and Flemish artists who landed in the capital driven by a desire to implement a profound meditation on naturalistic and genre painting. Typical of the School was the portrayal of popular scenes of common life in papal Rome, with particular attention to the humble world of peasants, hunters and housewives and those relegated to the margins of society including ruffians, thieves, gamblers and cheats, prostitutes, beggars and vagabonds, juxtaposing them with the re-presentation in a classical key of Roman ruins. The patrons came mainly from the nobility and upper middle class, eager to elevate their social status. Although his production has long been confused with that of Michelangelo Cerquozzi and the progenitor Van Laer, Miel experienced great fortune in Rome. He became a member of the Accademia di San Luca and the Accademia dei Virtuosi at the Pantheon where, in addition to executing numerous genre scenes, he also received public commissions for S. Martino ai Monti (1651), S. Maria dell'Anima (1650-3) and S. Lorenzo in Lucina (c. 1654). Among the most prestigious assignments he was given were, first, the decoration of the Palazzo Barberini and later, in the early 1950s, his involvement on behalf of Pietro da Cortona (who included him among the so-called "most celebrated painters of those times") in the building site of the decoration of the gallery of Pope Alexander XVII at the Quirinal Palace. In 1658, the Duke of Savoy Charles Emmanuel II called him to Turin to work on the decoration of the Royal Palace of Turin and the Palace of Venaria, then under construction. At the Reggia di Venaria he created a cycle of frescoes on the vault of the central Hall of Diana and, in the same hall, ten paintings dedicated to the duke's hunts. The canvas under consideration, depicting a Roman Countryside Landscape with Farrier, expresses, in fact, the typical characters of the Flemish master, not only in its adherence to bamboozling manners, but also in the drafting of color and the physiognomic types of the characters depicted. The generously sized work allows us to appreciate the care and meticulousness with which the artist describes the landscape near the Aurelian Walls, the protagonists with their gestures and humble garments, the animal world of horses, donkeys and dogs: all attentions that denote a vision and study from life, without literary filters, but with marked naturalism that cannot be judged hastily as anecdotal or genre. The profoundly realist commitment and seriousness with which he depicts a miserable humanity without giving in to a taste for the grotesque distinguishes the work from the more typical bamboozles, transforming the canvas into a valuable record of daily life, as well as geography of what the Roman countryside was like in the 17th century. The item is in good condition

Creator:

Jan Miel (1599 - 1663, Flemish)

Dimensions:

Height: 45.08 in (114.5 cm)Width: 57.49 in (146 cm)

Medium:

Canvas,Oil

Period:

17th Century

Condition:

Gallery Location:

Milan, IT

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