"Large Ideal Landscape, Late 17th Golden Frame From Animated Period And City View With Beautiful Architecture"
We do not always have the discernment to buy an important painting and I can say that in my career I have rarely had a crush, this is the case here where this very beautiful painting in good condition on a sturdy frame like the canvas it holds, in a sumptuous Bérain frame with exceptional gilding ears presents this remarkable canvas of "Ideal Landscape" from the end of the 17th century in the movement of Poussin or nature, architecture marry in a sublime pysage animated by happy beings, everything in this canvas seduces me: the fine architecture and remarkably interpreted with the canons of perspective, the grandiose nature in a circus of wooded landscape with a background of massifs playing with the light and the ethereal mists of the distance, the characters in groups between bathers in the masterful fountain and women talking at the foot of a monument made up of stacked rocks surmounted by a statuary in backlight, the valley where the water of the river punctuates the landscape, a real and rare piece in good condition without clean repainting, luminous with striking contrasts in a magnificent panel of colors, the treatment of the trees in the foreground sets the tone and underlines the soft elegant majestic scene of an ideal Landscape...I repeat myself enough said, photos are the best remedy to dive into it......