Landscape with Shepherds

1631 · Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp

landscape

In his Landscape with Shepherds, Jan Wildens abandoned the bird's-eye view in favour of a type of realistic, although at the same time idealised and serene slice of nature.

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About the Artist

Jan Wildens

1586 – 1653

Flemish landscape painter born in Antwerp, where he became a master in 1604. He is best known for painting landscape backgrounds for Rubens and for many artists in his circle, but his finest independent work - Winter Landscape with a Hunter (Gemäldegalerie, Dresden, 1624) - shows he was an accomplished master in his own right.

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