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Urbino Under the Snow - Etching - 17th Century

17th Century

Etching on paper realized in 1748. Very good condition except for some minor foxing. Includes a wooden frame cm. 27.5x41.5

Ancient View of Bern is an original modern artwork realized in the mid-19th Century. Original B/W Lithograph on Ivory Paper. Inscripted on the lower margin: Bern (Canton Bern). E...

"Figures Outside the Monastery" is an original etching by Jan Frans van Bloemen. It depicts people on the path to a church. 7" x 10 1/4" art 19 1/4" x 22 5/8" frame Jan Frans van Bloemen (baptized 12 May 1662 - buried 13 June 1749) was a Flemish landscape painter mainly active in Rome. Here he was able to establish himself as the leading painter of views (vedute) of the Roman countryside depicted in the aesthetic of the classical landscape tradition. Van Bloemen predominantly painted classical landscapes, taking his inspiration from the Roman Campagna. His landscapes, with their recession through a series of planes, soft, warm lightning and classical and religious subject matter, drew on the examples of artists such as Claude Lorrain and Gaspard Dughet. His paintings are exquisitely imbued with that "difficult-to-define pastoral ambience" which helped to make him such a great painter in the eyes of his contemporaries. The technique and subjects of the work of Jan Frans van Bloemen are also related to painters such as Jan Asselijn, Thomas Wyck...

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