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Pieter Van Bloemen
Rural Scene 1713 oil on canvas 32 x 40 cm This fine painting framed in front of a hillside slope and a landscape opening on the left, with a circular hut centered on two cows, goats, a dog, and a donkey in the foreground, behind which a boy is intent on loading the pack of a horse, is a typical account of Pieter van Bloemen known as the Stendardo. An authorship, moreover, directly indicated by his characteristic initials 'PVB', accompanied by the date '1713' affixed to the rock in the lower center; and which is fully confirmed by examination of the usual brilliant palette, imbued with a penetrating luminism. Within gilt frame. On the reverse are Christie's 2005 auction labels. Written appraisal by Prof. Giancarlo Sestieri dated March 13, 2006.
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