Ebony Veneered Cabinet

1645 · Private collection

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This late Renaissance ebony veneered cabinet from Antwerp is decorated with village landscapes and scenes from daily life by Izaac van Oosten. It is an excellent example of the highly skilled furniture-making practice that flourished in seventeenth-century Antwerp. Cabinet makers employed skilled painters to complete their creations with small pictures.

About the Artist

Izaac van Oosten

1613 – 1661

Flemish landscape and furniture painter. He became a master in the Antwerp guild of St. Luke in 1652 and painted numerous panels for Antwerp-made furniture. He was heavily influenced by Jan Brueghel the Elder as well as other Flemish contemporaries including Alexander Keirinckx and Lucas van Uden.

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