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Artist:
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Paul Bril
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Title:
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Landscape with Men Playing 'Mail à la Chicane'
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Date:
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1624
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Medium:
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Oil on canvas
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Dimensions:
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26 5/8 x 34 3/4 in. (67.63 x 88.27 cm) (canvas)
25 9/16 x 34 13/16 in. (65 x 88.5 cm) (sight)
35 x 42 1/2 x 3 in. (88.9 x 107.95 x 7.62 cm) (outer frame)
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Credit Line:
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The William Hood Dunwoody Fund
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Location:
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Gallery 312
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Paul Bril was born into a family of artists active in Antwerp. Around 1580, he moved permanently to Rome, where he worked initially as a fresco painter in the Vatican. In the 1590s he began to paint small landscapes stylistically indebted to an earlier Flemish tradition. Gradually, he developed a more classicizing mode in which ruins, bucolic figures and a calmer, pastoral sentiment prevailed. At his death in 1626, Bril was renowned throughout Italy for his idealizing landscapes, and his work would have a profound influence on Claude Lorrain.
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Artist/Creator(s)
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Name:
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Bril, Paul
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Nationality:
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Flemish
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Life Dates:
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Flemish, 1554 - 1626
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Object Description
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Inscriptions:
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Signature and Date LC (on end of column): [1624 Paul Brill] Stamp on verso (stamped twice on top stretcher member): [Produce of Holland]
Label on verso (cente
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Classification:
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Paintings
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Physical Description:
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Dutch Golden Age. Landscape with figures. Genre. In the foreground, a group of men playing ancient Dutch game of 'kolven' (golf). Middle distance, tower surrounded by a wall. In the distance, cottages and mountains. Rocky landscape to immediate left.
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Creation Place:
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Europe, Netherlands, , ,
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Accession #:
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40.3
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Owner:
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
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