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French school; late 18th century. "Landscapes". Oil on canvas. Re-drawn. It presents restorations. Preserves 19th century frame. Measurements: 59 x 98 cm (x2); 68 x 108 cm (frame, x2). In this pair of works we can see a wide landscape built on a solid structure skilfully resolved, as it combines in balance the diagonals and the horizontals, enhanced by the play of light, to firmly establish the spatial construction. It is interesting to note the tree that the artist has placed on the left-hand side of both compositions, establishing it as a horizontal line that helps to balance the diagonals that start at each end of the lower part of the canvas. Beyond these foregrounds the landscape opens up, allowing us to see the winding course of a navigable river, on the banks of which rise mountains bluish in the distance, silhouetted against a golden sky, blue but flooded with orange clouds. The wise composition, as well as the way in which the treetops and other formal details are worked, allow us to relate this work to the tradition of the French school. Although landscape painting as an independent genre appeared in Flanders in the 16th century, there is no doubt that this type of painting did not only reach its full development among Dutch artists. It can be said that they practically invented the naturalistic landscape, which they affirmed as an exclusively central feature of their artistic heritage. However, this interest extended to other schools such as the French, as this genre exalted the values of the nation, for the painter, filled with pride in his land, knew how to show through his paintings the beauty of its vast lands and overcast skies, the regular layout of its canals and meandering rivers, its polders and dykes, its beaches and, of course, its spectacular stormy seas. Despite their naturalism or the inventorial record of fact, French landscapes were at least as much a product of imagination as of observation.

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French school; late 18th century. "Landscapes". Oil on canvas. Re-drawn. It presents restorations. Preserves 19th century frame. Measurements: 59 x 98 cm (x2); 68 x 108 cm (frame, x2). In this pair of works we can see a wide landscape built on a solid structure skilfully resolved, as it combines in balance the diagonals and the horizontals, enhanced by the play of light, to firmly establish the spatial construction. It is interesting to note the tree that the artist has placed on the left-hand side of both compositions, establishing it as a horizontal line that helps to balance the diagonals that start at each end of the lower part of the canvas. Beyond these foregrounds the landscape opens up, allowing us to see the winding course of a navigable river, on the banks of which rise mountains bluish in the distance, silhouetted against a golden sky, blue but flooded with orange clouds. The wise composition, as well as the way in which the treetops and other formal details are worked, allow us to relate this work to the tradition of the French school. Although landscape painting as an independent genre appeared in Flanders in the 16th century, there is no doubt that this type of painting did not only reach its full development among Dutch artists. It can be said that they practically invented the naturalistic landscape, which they affirmed as an exclusively central feature of their artistic heritage. However, this interest extended to other schools such as the French, as this genre exalted the values of the nation, for the painter, filled with pride in his land, knew how to show through his paintings the beauty of its vast lands and overcast skies, the regular layout of its canals and meandering rivers, its polders and dykes, its beaches and, of course, its spectacular stormy seas. Despite their naturalism or the inventorial record of fact, French landscapes were at least as much a product of imagination as of observation.

Estimate 9 000 - 10 000 EUR
Starting price 5 000 EUR

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