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Banks of a Brook
Jan Dirksz Bothc.1641-45
Dulwich Picture Gallery
London, United Kingdom
Details
- Title: Banks of a Brook
- Creator Lifespan: c.1615 - 1652
- Date: c.1641-45
- Physical Dimensions: w689 x h552 cm
- Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil
- Work Notes: A copy of Both’s original at Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, inv. no. XXX (HdG 115). Possibly, according to Burke, a replica by Both himself c. 1641-5. The same landscape appears in two other landscapes by Both: 1. Schwerin, Gemäldegalerie, inv. no. 2207. 2. Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, inv. no. 18940.
- Work Nationality: Dutch
- Support: Canvas
- Provenance: London, Sir Francis Bourgeois, 1811; Bourgeois Bequest, 1811.
- Further Information: Jan Both was a Dutch painter of landscapes and genre scenes, draughtsman and etcher. He was one of the foremost painters of the second generation of Dutch Italianates. He moved to Rome sometime after 1637 and became friends with Herman van Swanevelt and Claude Lorrain. The four of them contributed to a series of landscapes for the Buen Retiro Palace in Madrid (now in the Prado). He remained in Italy until c. 1643, and Bank of a Brook was likely produced, or else soon upon his return to Antwerp. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Both was widely admired by collectors, while his reputation waned in the second half of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century. He and his oeuvre has received greater attention and appreciation since the 1960s.The painting is typical of Both not only in that it depicts a rural idyll populated by peasantry but that (as with his contemporaries in Rome, Claude and Swanevelt) it is arranged on diagonal lines to give depth, and unified by a glowing golden light. Bank of a Brookis a version, most probably by Both himself, of his painting in Antwerp (KMSKA), which is dated c.1641/5. It has suffered from over cleaning probably sometime before the nineteenth century. The same landscape with different staffage (horsemen instead of shepherds) appears inCarts stuck in a Southern Landscapeat the Staatliches Museum in Schwerin.
- Attributed to: Both, Jan
- Acquisition Method: Bourgeois, Sir Peter Francis (Bequest, 1811)
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