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Source Description
Mining was an important industry in the Southern Netherlands, Germany and Austria in the 15th-17th centuries. As many powerful figures with significant interests in mining were also great patrons of art, as Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, the theme became quite popular for landscape painting in the later 1500s.The precipitous descent into the valley combined with foreground detail- gypsies selling farm tools- exemplifies the startling contrasts and references to mining found in later 16th-century landscapes by Lucas van Valkenborc (ca. 1535-1597), for example one in the Fondation Custodia, Paris. However, the tighter painting technique is that of Martin Rykaert, a 17th-century flemish painter who derived many subjects from his predecessors.
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Document identity
localId
1490
label
River Landscape with Mining
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
citationUrl
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1
Source metadata
id
1490
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
River Landscape with Mining
description
Mining was an important industry in the Southern Netherlands, Germany and Austria in the 15th-17th centuries. As many powerful figures with significant interests in mining were also great patrons of art, as Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, the theme became quite popular for landscape painting in the later 1500s.The precipitous descent into the valley combined with foreground detail- gypsies selling farm tools- exemplifies the startling contrasts and references to mining found in later 16th-century landscapes by Lucas van Valkenborc (ca. 1535-1597), for example one in the Fondation Custodia, Paris. However, the tighter painting technique is that of Martin Rykaert, a 17th-century flemish painter who derived many subjects from his predecessors.
provenance
Laffan [no. 27 as by Jan Brueghel the Elder]; American Art Galleries Sale, American Art Association, New York, January 20, 1911; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1620-1629
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
paintings
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
31.8
height
49.5
dimensionsRaw
H: 12 1/2 x W: 19 1/2 in. (31.8 x 49.5 cm)
Source extras
med
oil on panel
creator_ids
15508
collection_ids
BAR
exhibition_ids
1994
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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0cec903923e61325