Pair of oval paintings, measuring 66 x 89 cm without frame and 90 x 115 cm with a contemporary frame, depicting two gallant moments during a hunting break by the painter Hendrik Van Limborch (The Hague 1681 – 1759).
The chromatic impact is beautiful, with these light and warm tones blending with the peace and tranquility of the rural world.
The main characteristics of Van Limborch's painting are the airy vastness of the landscapes and the sense of diffused luminosity, where the episodes have no precise meaning. They are almost always rural pastimes so dear to the 17th century, with the usual characters from the repertoire of capriccio and view painters: beggars, orientals, abbots contemplating ancient tombstones, or hunters seeking rest or at work, all naturally immersed in the dominating nature, undisputed symbol of unity between man and life.
The landscape motif, even in the most imaginative flares, always has a real starting point and therefore a truthful and human dimension in our painter; in these paintings we can notice this bright and vivid green that tries to explain how beautiful, strong, vigorous but at the same time sweet and docile the nature around us is, in which we lose ourselves.
It is beautiful to note how the two couples of people are on one hand busy in their thoughts but at the same time seem lost in the serenity and tranquility of this old-fashioned landscape.
Typical is his construction of the pictorial fabric and particular the atmospheric rendering played with the shaded areas created by the scenic backdrops of trees and clouds.
As happens in this painting, the perfect composition of the landscape became the main object of his work;
The wooded patches executed with a free and rapid brushstroke, the warm burnished colors, the atmospheric rendering of the rising cumulus clouds, all in a well-balanced composition of his Arcadian pastoral landscapes, constitute the most significant elements of his painting, all well represented also in our canvas.
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