Dutch painter
The Hague 1607 – 1669 The Hague
Figures in an Arcadian landscape
Oil on panel : 31,7 X 42,2 cm
Unsigned
Frame : 48,8 X 61,6 cm
Dirck van der Lisse studied painting in Utrecht under Cornelis van Poelenburgh, who was a highly influential painter of these small myhological scenes. Van der Lisse settled in 1644 permanently in his birthplace The Hague, where he was to be mayor several times.
Arcadia was in Antiquity considered a place of unspoiled, harmonious pastoral life. And it kept this meaning in Western art.
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