19th Century Flemish Fair Large Oil On canvas

About the Item

Flemish Fair (After Jan Brueghel The Elder) This is a very large and impressive version of the original painting Flemish Fair Cr. 1600. Beautiful 19th Century or earlier oil on canvas, after Jan Brueghel The Elder, painting is singed lower right D'Alessandro. The painting depicts in a landscape a Kermis or fair, during which a religious festival is celebrated by a rustic street party filled with fun, drinking, dancing, in every part of the painting you can see the joy of life at that time. Overall the painting is in very good condition with a small old restoration on the tree, very nice original frame. Jan Brueghel the Elder was a Flemish painter and draughtsman. He was the son of the eminent Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder. A close friend and frequent collaborator with Peter Paul Rubens, the two artists were the leading Flemish painters in the first three decades of the 17th century. Brueghel worked in many genres including history paintings, flower still lifes, allegorical and mythological scenes, landscapes and seascapes, hunting pieces, village scenes, battle scenes and scenes of hellfire and the underworld. He was an important innovator who invented new types of paintings such as flower garland paintings, paradise landscapes, and gallery paintings in the first quarter of the 17th century. He further created genre paintings that were imitations, pastiches and reworkings of his father's works, in particular his father's genre scenes and landscapes with peasants. Brueghel represented the type of the pictor doctus, the erudite painter whose works are informed by the religious motifs and aspirations of the Catholic Counter-Reformation as well as the scientific revolution with its interest in accurate description and classification.

Dimensions:

Height: 48 in (121.92 cm)Width: 68 in (172.72 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)

Medium:

Canvas,Oil

Movement & Style:

Baroque

After:

Jan Brueghel The Elder (1568 - 1625, Belgian)

Period:

Late 19th Century

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