Sebastiaen Vrancx (Antwerp 1573-1647)
Landscape with Hunters and Wayfarers
Oil on wood, 52 x 76 cm
Signed and dated at lower left with the monogram SV (entwined) / A [1]621
A more dramatic sensibility, associated with the example of Rubens, lends this scene, indebted to the modules of Jan Brueghel the Elder and Bril, a new landscape vitality. A painter of scenes connected with war and weaponry, Vrancx here lets the rhythm of country life prevail in its various activities.
