Guillaume du Bois, 1610 – 1680, Umkreis des GROTTO SYSTEM WITH TRAVELERS Oil on canvas. Doubled. 48 x 44 cm. With owner's note and numbering verso. In wide profile frame. In its composition and proportions, the painting is reminiscent of a painting by Guillaume du Bois, which is kept in the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe and also shows arched grottoes enlivened by finely drawn vegetation, with small staffage figures indicating the dimensions of the rocks. Here in the foreground a shallow ford through which travelers with pack mules are passing, in the background a flat, sunlit landscape in the foreground. (1400943) (13)

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