Life in the Countryside

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Life in the Countryside
La vida en el campo.jpg
Artist Joos de Momper; Jan Brueghel the Elder
Yearca. 1620
CatalogueP001440
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions166 cm× 168 cm(65.3 in× 66.1 in)
Location Museum of Prado [1] [2] , Madrid

Life in the Countryside (Spanish: La vida en el campo) is an oil on canvas painting by Flemish artists Jan Brueghel the Elder and Joos de Momper. It was painted between 1620 and 1622. [3] The painting is kept in the Museum of Prado in Madrid. [2] [1] [3]

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Painting

This painting is today considered a collaboration between Jan Brueghel the Elder and Joos de Momper. [3] The latter would have painted the landscape, the former the figures, as is customary in paintings considered collaborations of the two. [3]

The large trees in midsection split the composition in two, and are "the vertical counterpoint to the horizontal perspective that is projected in the distance." The painting show the influence of Brueghel the Elder on his own son and de Momper in many ways. Notably, the scenic choice and the representation of figures. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 Archivo español de arte, Volume 48. Madrid: Instituto Diego Velázquez. 1998. p. 271.
  2. 1 2 Manuela Mena (1998). Guía del Prado. Silex. p. 156 (1573). ISBN   9788485041497.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Life in the countryside". Museum of Prado . Retrieved 24 September 2020.

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