18th-century Flemish painter, Path with travelers
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18th-century Flemish painter
Path with travelers
Oil on panel, 48 x 67 cm
The main features of this work are the airy breadth of the panorama and the sense of diffused luminosity, which recall the best Flemish painters of the past but with a slight neoclassical note. The landscape motif, even in its most imaginative flares, always has a real starting point in Flemish painting and therefore a truthful and human dimension; in this painting we can notice how strong, vigorous and almost hostile to the human figure is the nature that surrounds us and in which we lose ourselves. The silhouettes of the travelers, defined with a few quick strokes, are lost within a boundless and sometimes repulsive landscape. Between the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the iconographic theme of the stop or passage of knights and travelers became widespread, as evidenced by the paintings of Adam Pynacker, Nicholas Berchem and Johann Heinrich Roos.