Dune Landscape with a Signal Post, Philips Wouwerman, c. 1651 - c. 1653 – (Philips Wouwerman) ◄ ก่อน ต่อไป ►

ศิลปิน: Philips Wouwerman

วันที่: 1653

ขนาด: 24 x 30 cm

เทคนิค: Oil On Panel

The subordinate role of the staffage sets this well-preserved view of dunes apart from most of Philips Wouwerman’s later works. The scene is populated with only a few figures, which one only notices at second glance. The artist concentrated on the depiction of the landscape under a cloudy sky. A few people are standing by the water’s edge on the right, and there is a farmhouse on the hill. To its left is probably a signal post on which a storm warning could be hoisted to announce impending bad weather. Wouwerman could have seen a coastal panorama like this near his native Haarlem. There are similar dune landscapes in the oeuvre of his assumed teacher Pieter Cornelisz Verbeeck.5 Although no documents showing that he was trained by the latter have yet been found, the similarities in subject matter, composition and use of colour do make it likely that he was influenced by Verbeeck. Few of Wouwerman’s works bear the year of execution, so it is sometimes difficult to establish a chronology for his paintings. This small panel has been placed in both his early career and at the beginning of the 1650s.6 Krempel believed that it was made in the mid-1640s, partly because of the putative monogram ‘PH . W’, which was the type that Wouwerman used between 1642 and 1646.7 However, it is doubtful whether Wouwerman only signed as ‘PHiLS W’ after 1646.8 Stylistic evidence makes an origin in the early 1650s more likely, at a time when he produced several related dune scenes in which the emphasis is on the landscape and not the figures.9 One clue to a more precise date is a dune landscape with a river of 1652.10 Gerdien Wuestman, 2022 See Key to abbreviations, Rijksmuseum painting catalogues and Acknowledgements