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Landscape with Nymphs and Satyrs

Landscape with Nymphs and Satyrs

Artist/Maker (Flemish, 1554–1626)
Date1623
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 27 3/4 × 40 5/8 in. (70.5 × 103.2 cm)
Frame: 33 9/16 × 46 9/16 × 3 1/8 in. (85.2 × 118.3 × 7.9 cm)
Credit LineFriends of Art Fund, A. Augustus Healy Fund, R. T. Miller Jr. Fund, and Charles F. Olney Fund
Object number1953.257
Status
On view
More Information
Coming from a Dutch family of painters, Paul Bril was one of the most important Italianate landscapists of his day. By the age of twenty, he was working in Rome, and was later admitted into the Accademia di San Luca. Bril's idealized landscapes are distinguished by the subtle variations in the foliage colors, along with the layering of passages of light and shadow. Added to these atmospheric effects is the artist's trademark pale green light that fills the open spaces of the composition. For this work, Bril likely enlisted the help of an Italian colleague - possibly Pietro Paolo Bonzi or Agostino Tassi - to paint the group of nymphs and satyrs in the right foreground.
Exhibition History
Art Dealer's Fair
  • Prisenhof Museum Delft, The Netherlands ( 1953 - 1953 )
Paintings and Drawings from Five Centuries: Collection Allen Memorial Art Museum
  • M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (February 3, 1954 - February 21, 1954 )
Landscape: Massys to Corot
  • Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University (May 6, 1955 - June 3, 1955 )
Oberlin Friends of Art: 25 Years of Collecting
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (March 5, 1963 - March 26, 1963 )
Masterpieces from University Collections
  • University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY (April 9, 1967 - May 10, 1967 )
Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10, 1973 - September 2, 1973 )
Romance and Reality
  • Wildenstein & Company, New York (October 17, 1979 - November 25, 1979 )
Man and Nature: A View of the Seventeenth Century
  • Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (August 14, 1980 - September 28, 1980 )
The Age of Rubens
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (September 22, 1993 - January 2, 1994 )
  • The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (February 2, 1994 - April 24, 1994 )
The Genius of Rome 1592-1623
  • Royal Academy of Arts, London (January 20, 2001 - April 16, 2001 )
Seven Hundred Years of Western Art
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 26, 2001 - June 2, 2002 )
Collections
  • European
  • On View
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