Autumn Landscape (September)
1585 | Lucas I. van Valckenborch
As chamber painter to Archduke Matthias, Valckenborch worked on a cycle of twelve paintings of the months. Of them, seven have been preserved and five of these are in Vienna. This cycle represents a completely new attempt, with varied results, to depict real life in apparently plausible landscape settings. The intention was to combine allegories of the months, landscape and genre scenes in a unified whole. However van Valckenborch was unable to achieve the universality of Bruegel’s cycle of the seasons.
As chamber painter to Archduke Matthias, Valckenborch worked on a cycle of twelve paintings of the months. Of them, seven have been preserved and five of these are in Vienna. This cycle represents a completely new attempt, with varied results, to depict real life in apparently plausible landscape settings. The intention was to combine allegories of the months, landscape and genre scenes in a unified whole. However van Valckenborch was unable to achieve the universality of Bruegel’s cycle of the seasons.
Artist:
Lucas I. van Valckenborch (1535 oder kurz danach in Löwen - 1597 Frankfurt am Main) DNB
Time:
1585
Object Name
Painting
Culture
Netherlandish
Material/technology:
Canvas
Dimensions:
116 cm x 198 cm
Framed: 131,5 cm x 214,3 cm x 6,5 cm
Signed
Inscribed at the bottom left of the wall: 1585 LVV
Copyright
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Gemäldegalerie
Invs.
Gemäldegalerie, 5684
Provenance
First documented in inventory G (1612/18) of the gallery (?); Before 1855 in Ambras