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Lot 24
Jan Wijnants (Haarlem 1631-1684 Amsterdam)
A wooded landscape with a fallen tree trunk, thistle and figures beyond
Closed14 November 2007
Price Realised
EUR 12,250
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Born in Haarlem, but working in Amsterdam from 1660, Jan Wynants was one of the foremost of the Dutch artists of the second half of the 17th Century who moved away from the restricted palette of the 1620s and 1630s. His paintings are predominately landscapes and dunescapes, following the tradition established by Pieter de Molijn, Philips Wouwerman, Jacob van Ruisdael and others. The use of a fallen tree trunk in the present composition is a device often associated with Jacob van Ruisdael. The juxtaposition of a verdant countryside with dead wood alluded, in the 17th Century, to the transience of life.
Wynants' work appealed strongly to the eighteenth-century English taste for Dutch landscapes, and his work influenced artists such as Franois Boucher and Thomas Gainsborough. A similar composition was with Spencer-Churchill; Christie's, London, 29 October 1965, lot 102, as Pijnacker (280 guineas).
Wynants' work appealed strongly to the eighteenth-century English taste for Dutch landscapes, and his work influenced artists such as Franois Boucher and Thomas Gainsborough. A similar composition was with Spencer-Churchill; Christie's, London, 29 October 1965, lot 102, as Pijnacker (280 guineas).