Circle of Nicolaes Berchem, Armenti and architectural capriccio

Circle of Nicolaes Berchem (Haarlem, 1620 – Amsterdam, 1683)

Architectural Capriccio with herds – Oil on canvas

The examined canvas is to be referred to a follower of Nicolaes Berchem, a Dutch artist born in 1620, son of the still life painter Pieter Claez, from whom he received the first rudiments of painting. His training and his paintings are deeply linked to Italy, the country in which he traveled and studied; a first trip must have been prior to 1642, a period in which his presence is documented in the Guild of Saint Luke of Haarlem, one of the most important artists' guilds in Flanders and the Netherlands, particularly active in the Baroque period; among its members we can mention artists of the caliber of Rubens, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Antoon Van Dick, Pieter Bruegel. After a second Italian stay between 1653-1656 he settled permanently in Amsterdam. His production focuses on port panoramas, ruins, Roman landscapes and pastoral landscapes, as in the work in question. His style is strongly influenced by his Italian stays and is characterized by a definition of ideal rural environments, hilly or mountainous as the case may be, enriched by human and animal figures (he was also an engraver and his studies on animals were of considerable importance).

The painting is characterized by a delicate, lyrical atmosphere with warm tones, at the same time lively and present. In the rich and balanced composition, the landscape is rendered with great attention paid to detail and light while the slight fading and attenuation of the colors in the distance gives the sense of a delicate depth. The figures are rendered with attention to detail and attention to pose and actions. They seem to be caught in a real moment, the moment the action is happening. The warm tones and the refined transitions of tone, immersed in this particular light, give the work an atmosphere in which time seems to have stopped.

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