Roman landscape with washerwomen and apple seller, Thomas Wijck (Bewerwyck 1616- Haarlem 1677)

Thomas Wyck or Wijck (Bewerwyck 1616- Haarlem 1677)
Roman landscape with washerwomen and apple seller

approx. 1660
Oil on panel, 35 x 47 cm., in frame 51 x 62 cm.

provenance:
Bonhams auction, London, Old Master Paintings 9.12.2015 (link)
Soraya Cartategui Fine Art Auction – Madrid/ New York (link)
The work is cataloged on the RKD archive.

Details of the work on: https://www.antichitacastelbarco.it/it/prodotti/thomas-wijck–paesaggio-romano-con-scena-di-genere

This is a work by the painter Thomas Wyck (Bewerwyck 1616 – Haarlem 1677), an important Flemish artist of the Golden Age, originally from the city of Haarlem and specialized in the creation of splendid landscapes and genre scenes, often set outdoors and populated by figures of common people, as in our case with a couple of washerwomen who supply water from a well and a woman who sells apples to a traveller.

Active in Rome between 1640 and 1642 – known here by the nickname 'Flemish Thomas' – his style was strongly influenced by this Italian stay, and in particular by contact with that group of Nordic painters, almost all Dutch, working in Rome in the middle of the seventeenth century, called Bamboccianti. The proposed canvas in fact falls within the trend of the typical "bambocciate", in whose execution we can hear the echoes of the representations of the leader Pieter van Laer, a point of reference for this sought-after movement of landscape painters.

In our work we find all the skill of the master Thomas Wijck who, thanks to his compositional style, allows us to open 'a window onto everyday life' where small and lively scenes of popular life, treated with realism, become protagonists.

The landscape around Rome is the typical context of his paintings, with these scenes of rural life set in the vast picturesque expanses of the countryside, dotted as in our case with perched villages or ancient ruins, without the great classical monuments.

The painting in question, on an oak support, could have been painted during his stay in Rome, but also a creation made after his return from Rome to his native Haarlem, where he continued to paint Italian subjects for the next three decades.

The table is in good condition.

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