Coastal landscape with market scene, Alexander van Bredael (Antwerp 1663 – 1720)

Alexander van Bredael (Antwerp 1663 – 1720) – Signed lower left: AV BREDAEL F(ecit),
Italian coastal landscape with market scene

Oil on canvas (70 x 88 cm. – in frame 95 x 113 cm.)

Provenance (see photo):
– Mercier & Cie, Lille, France, 28.05.2000, lot 223
– Dorotheum, Vienna, 4.10.2000, lot 496 (18.000-22.000 E)

Details of the proposed painting (direct link with all the photos of the details):

The work, particularly rich in detail, depicts a fantasy coastal landscape, as the scene of a bustling morning market that animates the main square, with a multitude of characters, including fruit, vegetable and livestock merchants, fishermen in the distance and buyers.

The signed painting is a typical work of the well-known painter Alexander van Bredael (1663–1720), originally from Antwerp, specializing in highly imaginative market scenes and village festivals, slides of everyday city life.

His works are often set in Mediterranean landscapes, where Italian-inspired architectural models stand out, such as the classic village perched overlooking the shore, and the particular fountain that stands out in the center of the square, decorated with masks, female figures and a statue of a satyr on the top.

Also the style with which the characters are outlined and the tasty genre scenes perfectly reproduce the master's prototypes, characterized by a use of bright colors and an extremely refined attention to detail, which combines his ability as a landscape painter with that of naturamortista.

Finally, it is worth mentioning the particular beauty and abundance of details with which the animal depictions are rendered, the beautiful and rustic still lifes displayed by the vegetable and fruit seller, the silhouettes of the characters, minutely described and enjoyable in every detail.

Works by the author that appeared on the market, with stylistic and compositional characteristics similar to our painting:
– Alexander van Bredael, Great pastoral feast among ancient ruins, Hampel (Munich) 26.06.2009, nr. 248 (https://www.hampel-auctions.com/archive-catalogue-detail.php?la=de&a=77&s=161&id=77304&a…)
– Alexander van Bredael, Figures in a stream outside the city, Lempertz (Keulen) 22-11-2008, nr. 1292 (https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/220380)
– Alexander van Bredael, Southern landscape with a city on a bay, travelers and traders in the foreground, Christie (London) 17/12/1999, n° 106 (https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/ 63122)
– Alexander van Bredael, Interior with a peasant couple, Sotheby's (London) 14/12/2000, n° 143 (https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/102512)
– Alexander van Bredael, Southern landscape with a city on a bay, travelers and merchants in the foreground, Venduehuis der Notarissen (The Hague) 1994-11-08 (https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/ 103588)

Work in excellent conservation conditions.

The work, like all our objects, is sold accompanied by a certificate of photographic authenticity in accordance with the law.
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