The Property of a Family
Lucas van Uden
An extensive landscape with an elegant company drinking in the foreground, a small boat with figures in the river nearby, with a distant landscape in the background with windmill and church
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The Property of a Family
Lucas van Uden
Antwerp 1595 - 1672
An extensive landscape with an elegant company drinking in the foreground, a small boat with figures in the river nearby, with a distant landscape in the background with windmill and church
signed lower right LVVDEN/ f
oil on oak panel
unframed: 41.9 x 71.6 cm.; 16½ x 28¼ in.
framed: 56.9 x 86.3 cm.; 22⅜ x 34 in.
From whom acquired in 1990 by a private collection;
Thence by descent to the present owners.
This beautifully preserved painting is a fine example of Lucas van Uden's expert touch and mastery in portraying the Flemish landscape. Van Unden's many surviving sketches taken from nature attest to the artist's great interest in presenting the natural world in a truthful and authentic way. In this particular panel, the trees, ponds and skyline are treated with a profound sensitivity and delicacy. This is also reflected in the sky, which captures the exact moment of an oncoming weather front, showing a band of rain sweeping in from the centre right in the distance beyond.
The same compositional motif was used by the artist in another signed panel that survives in the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.1
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