Paul Bril

Mountainous Landscape with Saint Jerome

Paul Bril
Mountainous Landscape with Saint Jerome

Visitabile tra Sala 4

As a young painter, Paul Bril travelled from Antwerp to Rome, where he became the most influential landscape painter of his day. Bril painted this landscape on copper, a base that is excellently suited to painting fine details.

On the left, we see St Jerome, who is praying and doing penance in solitude. It is an imaginary landscape, like those painted by Flemish artists in the sixteenth century. The colours run from brown, through green to blue, making the landscape appear to stretch into infinity.

Dettagli tecnici

Paul Bril
Mountainous Landscape with Saint Jerome

Visitabile tra Sala 4

Acquired with support from the VriendenLoterij, the Rembrandt Association, in association with the A.M. Roeters van Lennep Fund, and Mr H.B. van der Ven, 2013
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Dettagli

Informazioni generali
Artista Paul Bril (Antwerp or Breda c. 1553/1554 - 1626 Rome)
Titolo Mountainous Landscape with Saint Jerome
Nome oggetto painting
Numero inventario 1204
Visitabile tra Sala 4
Materiale e dettagli tecnici
Tecnica oil
Materiale copper
Dimensioni 25.7 x 32.8 cm
Iscrizione
Signed lower left: PB
Signed and dated on the verso: PB / 1592
incised on the surface

Origine

Shillinglee Park, Chiddingfold, Surrey, Edward Turnour, 6th Earl Winterton Collection; sale London, Christie's, 12 December 1947, lot 43 (as by Jan Brueghel; for £399 to Hallsborough); J.C. Morris Collection; London, Mrs. M.Q. Morris Collection; sale London, Sotheby’s, 29 November 1961, lot 49 (with fig., for £3000 to A. Duits); sale London, Sotheby’s, 26 March 1969, lot 82; sale London, Christie’s, 4-5 December 2012, lot 5; Johnny Van Haeften Gallery, London; acquired with support from the Vriendenloterij and the Rembrandt Association, in association with the A.M. Roeters van Lennep Fund, and Mr H.B. van der Ven, 2013