Mathys Schoevaerts And Pieter Bout (late 17th C.), A Fictitious View Of An Italo-flemish Town

Mathys Schoevaerdts and Pieter Bout
Flemish painters
Brussels circa 1665 – after 1702 Brussels
Brussels 1640/45 – 1689 /1719 Brussels
A fictituous Italo-Flemish town view with the Pantheon of Rome at the centre
Oil on canvas : 42,3 X 60,1 cm
Unsigned
Frame : 52,0 X 69,8 cm

The figure staffage was painted by Pieter Bout.

Provenance : our painting was sold as “a village scene by Mathys Schoevaerdts” at Guérin, Saint-Dié, 8/06/97, for 58.000 FF (+ buyer’s premium) = 8.842 € (+ BP).

During the second half of the 17th century the Flemish followers of Jan Brueghel I and II often painted warmly lit Italianate landscapes. Here Schoevaerdts has gone one step further, puzzling together elements from a Flemish town at left with a view of the Pantheon in Rome (at the centre) and a typical Italian Renaissance palazzo with its fountain at right.
Pieter Bout has perfectly incorporated his vivid figures into this seemingly exotic town view.

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