Forest Landscape
around 1600 | Gillis van Coninxloo
Even if Coninxloo is not the inventor of the type of close-up, compact forest landscape, as once assumed, he is for sure the consummate master of this subject which emerged around 1600. The thick “jungle”, in reality composed according to intricate laws of composition, barely allows us a glimpse of sky.
Even if Coninxloo is not the inventor of the type of close-up, compact forest landscape, as once assumed, he is for sure the consummate master of this subject which emerged around 1600. The thick “jungle”, in reality composed according to intricate laws of composition, barely allows us a glimpse of sky.
Artist:
Gillis van Coninxloo (1544 Antwerpen - 1606 Amsterdam) DNB
Time:
around 1600
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Netherlandish
Material/technology:
oak wood
Dimensions:
56 x 85 cm
Framed: 74 cm x 104 cm x 7,5 cm
Signed
On the tree trunk left remains of the monogram
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 6504
Provenance
Coll. Hommel, Zurich; 1925 dedication Gallery St. Lucas, Vienna;