A landscape with herders
Is leeg, of bestaat niet
PAULUS BRIL
Antwerp 1554-1626
Oil on canvas 40,5 x 52 cm.
Provenance
Private collection, Vienna
In a certificate, drs. Luuk Pijl, specialist for Bril, confirms the picture as genuine work by Paul Bril.
Paul and his elder brother Matthijs, both born in Antwerp, were landscape painters. Paul, a student of his father and of Damiaen Owertelmans in Antwerp, followed his brother to Rome where Matthijs worked on several fresco’s including the Vatican’s Seasons. Matthijs died young and Paul continued his work around 1574. Paul also executed engravings and small cabinet paintings on copper, some of which are signed with a pair of glasses. The Bril brothers form one of the links between the panoramic views of Joachim Patinir and the ideal landscape evolved by Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain.
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