Animated Scene By The North Sea - Dutch School First Half Of The 17th Century

Animated scene on the shores of the North Sea Painting on panel which dates from around 1640-1650 Indeed from the end of the 1620s the “tonal phase” of Dutch landscape painting began, the artists softening or blurring their contours and focusing on an atmospheric effect, with great prominence given to the sky and human figures usually absent or small and distant. Compositions based on a diagonal across pictorial space become popular, and water is often depicted. From the 1650s, a “classical phase” began, which retained the atmospheric aspect but gave rise to more expressive compositions with much stronger contrasts of light and color. These compositions often represent an isolated tree, a mill or a tower; Our painting is located just at the crossroads of these two periods