A Forest Glade (1657)
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| Artist | Adam Pynacker (signed indistinctly A.Pynacker) (b.1620, d.1673) |
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| Title | A Forest Glade |
| Date | 1657 |
| Period | 17th century ; 1650s |
| Description | One of the outstanding figures of the Dutch Italianate group, Pynacker’s style was looser than other artists working in the genre. His paintings often strayed from classical approaches to composition that artists like Jan Both adhered to. This painting has one of the earliest examples of Pynacker’s recurring motif of a gnarled tree stump in the foreground. When viewing the Torrie Collection at the Royal Institution in 1850, the art historian Gustav Waagen commented that the painting “represents a fresh morning, the master appears in his most favourable aspect.” |
| Material | canvas (textile material)/textile materials/materials (substances) ; oil paint (paint)/paint (coating) |
| Dimensions | 81.2 x 90 cm |
| Subject | Landscapes |
| Collection | Art Collection ; Torrie Collection |
| Signature | lower right hand corner |
| Accession Number | EU0730 |