Attack On A Village In Winter. Sébastien Vrancx (antwerp 1573-1647) Workshop Of

Oil on canvas

Presented in a Cassetta frame in blackened oak, from the 17th century.

Total dimensions: 79 x 112.5 cm. The frame: 61 x 95 cm

On this large and beautiful snowy landscape, the painter immerses us in the middle of the 17th century in the depths of winter.
In the same vein as Pieter Brueghel the Younger, Sébastien Vrancx depicts earthy scenes with the same concern and the same attention to detail, often anecdotal.
Soldiers, most likely Spaniards, invaded this village in the Netherlands during the Eighty Years' War.
The panicked inhabitants, run in all directions to take shelter. In the foreground, the booty is collected under the guard of a young woman, elegantly dressed in a green dress and wearing a feathered hat, the brigands steal everything, even the kitchen utensils!

The painter has accustomed us to this kind of scene that he particularly likes, a painting similar to ours, but painted in another season, summer, was on the art market some time ago.

Sébastien Vrancx, Flemish painter (Antwerp 1573 –id. 1647).
He must have traveled to Italy between 1595 and 1597, passing through Rome and Venice where he was in contact with his compatriot Pozzoserrato (Toeput). Free master in Antwerp in 1600-1601, he was, in 1607, a member of the Guild of Saint-Luc and of the Chamber of Rhetoric of the Violieren, for which he composed poetry and plays. Dean of the guild in 1612 and extremely popular in his hometown, he was also elected captain of the bourgeois guard in 1621. Museums and private collections have many paintings by him, sometimes monogrammed and dated, ranging between 1600 and 1633 Vrancx represented the most diverse subjects: biblical or historical episodes, illustrations of the seasons and months, scenes of society life (the Gardens of the Villa Medici, 1615, Naples, Capodimonte, or the View of the Kranenhoofd of Antwerp in winter, 1622, Rijksmuseum). But, above all, he was the first painter of battles of the 17th century., that of skirmishes, looting and brawls: Pillage of a village (Louvre), Bag of a village (Rome, Gal. Spada), Attacks of stagecoach or convoy (museums of Brunswick, Antwerp, Munich; Windsor castle), Combats of horsemen (museums of Gotha, Brunswick, Munich), Sieges of cities dealt with from a bird's eye view (museum of Gotha ; coll. of Baron Houtart in Brussels).
His distribution of colors, a way of composing that is still very narrative (swarming of figures) reveal an artist influenced by the art of the previous century. Sébastien Vrancx uses the colors with sobriety, subjecting the whole to the dominant red and dark brown. He was the master of Pieter Snayers, who collaborated with him, and he notably influenced Pieter Meulener and Van der Meulen.

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