Tuesday, October 25, 2016

17th-century Flemish Landscape Paintings

Frans Snyders
Concert of Birds
17th century
Prado

Frans Snyders
Concert of Birds
17th century
Prado

Marten Ryckaert
Landscape
1616
Prado

March strongly forth, my Muse, whilst yet the temperate air
Invites us easily on to hasten our repair.
Thou powerful god of flames (in verse divinely great)
Touch my invention so with thy true genuine heat
That high and noble things I slightly may not tell,
Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell;
But, as my subject serves, so high or low to strain,
And to the varying earth so suit my varying vein,
That, nature, in my work thou mayst they power avow;
That, as thou first foundst art and didst her rules allow,
So I, to thine own self that gladly near would be,
May herein do the best, in imitating thee.
As thou hast here a hill, a vale there, there a flood,
A mead here, there a heath, and now and then a wood,
These things so in my song I naturally may show:
Now as the mountain high, then as the valley low;
Here fruitful as the mead, there as the heath be bare;
Then, as the gloomy wood, I may be rough, though rare. 

 Michael Drayton, from Poly-Olbion (1612)

Denys van Alsloot and Hendrick de Clerck
Diana and Actaeon
ca. 1608
Prado

Anonymous Flemish painter
Landscape with Hunters
early 17th century
Prado

Isaak van Oosten
Landscape with Boats
1650s
Prado

Pieter Snayers
The Taking of Ypres
ca. 1649
Prado

Anonymous Flemish painter
Landscape with Gibbet
17th century
Prado
 
Francisque Millet
Mercury and Battus
1660s-70s
Metropolitan Museum of Art
gift of Louisine Havemeyer

Pieter Spierinckx
Italian Landscape
17th century
Prado

attributed to Pieter de Witte
Landscape
ca. 1660
drawing
British Museum

Tobias Verhaecht
Alpine Landscape
ca.1600-1615
Prado

David Teniers
Archery Contest among Flemish Peasants
ca. 1645
Prado

David Teniers
Armida before Godfrey of Bouillon
ca. 1628-30
Prado