Landscape with Christ on the Road to Emmaus
Paul Bril (Breda 1553 - Rom 1626), follower
Lot-No. 6
Oil/copper, 55 x 77 cm, lo. ri. fragment of an inscription P. Bril, on the reverse inscribed P. Bril F 1622 as well as inv. no. N 7, retouchings. - We are grateful to Ellis Dullaart from the RKD in The Hague for her kind assistance. - The most influential Flemish landscape painter of the early 17th cent. B. was pupil of D. Wortelmans in Antwwerpen before following his brother Mathijs to Rome around 1576. He soon succeeded as fresco painter and received commissions from three popes and numerous cardinals. His paintings were also exported to Northern Europe where they also sold very well and inspired many followers. Mus.: St. Petersburg (Hermitage), Paris (Louvre), Madrid (Prado), Berlin (Gem.-Gal.), Dresden (Gem.-Gal.) a. others. Lit.: AKL, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit a. others.
Paul Bril: Landscape with Christ on the Road to Emmaus
Paul Bril (Breda 1553 - Rom 1626), follower
Landscape with Christ on the Road to Emmaus
Lot-No. 6
Oil/copper, 55 x 77 cm, lo. ri. fragment of an inscription P. Bril, on the reverse inscribed P. Bril F 1622 as well as inv. no. N 7, retouchings. - We are grateful to Ellis Dullaart from the RKD in The Hague for her kind assistance. - The most influential Flemish landscape painter of the early 17th cent. B. was pupil of D. Wortelmans in Antwwerpen before following his brother Mathijs to Rome around 1576. He soon succeeded as fresco painter and received commissions from three popes and numerous cardinals. His paintings were also exported to Northern Europe where they also sold very well and inspired many followers. Mus.: St. Petersburg (Hermitage), Paris (Louvre), Madrid (Prado), Berlin (Gem.-Gal.), Dresden (Gem.-Gal.) a. others. Lit.: AKL, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit a. others.