Diana y sus Ninfas de caza - Jasper van der Lanen

Jasper van der Lanen, Jasper van der Laanen or Kasper van der LanenJasper van der Lanen
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Netherlands Institute for Art History The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center ...

Frans Jozef Peter Van den Branden, ''Geschiedenis der Antwerpsche schilderschool'', Antwerpen, 1883, p. 462 (c. 1585 in Antwerp – after 1626 in Antwerp) was a Flemish landscape painter. He is known for his wooded landscapes with figures representing mythological or biblical stories or pastoral scenes. His work was only rediscovered in the mid-20th century. The discovery of additional signed works has made it possible to better understand the artist's style. As a result, there have been more attributions to him of works, which had previously been attributed to other painters with which he shared a similar approach to landscape painting such as

Jan Brueghel the Younger Jan Brueghel (also Bruegel or Breughel) the Younger (, ; ; 13 September 1601 – 1 September 1678) was a Flemish Baroque painter. He was the son of Jan Brueghel the Elder, and grandson of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, both prominent painters who ...

.Jasper van der Lanen, ''Diana and her nymphs hunting''
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Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires) The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes ("National Museum of Fine Arts") is an Argentine art museum in Buenos Aires, located in the Recoleta section of the city. The Museum inaugurated a branch in Neuquén in 2004. The museum hosts works by Goya, Remb ...

Life

Very little is known about the life of Jasper van der Lanen. He was registered as a pupil of the obscure painter Nicolaas Geerts in the guild year 1607 and became master of the Antwerp

Guild of St. Luke The Guild of Saint Luke was the most common name for a city guild for painters and other artists in early modern Europe, especially in the Low Countries. They were named in honor of the Evangelist Luke, the patron saint of artists, who was identi ...

in the guild year 1615.Ph. Rombouts and Th. van Lerius, ''De liggeren en andere historische archieven der Antwerpsche sint Lucasgilde, listing archives from 1453-1615''
Antwerp, 1864, pp. 445 and 513 In 1624 he married Elisabeth Rombouts.

Abraham Govaerts Abraham Govaerts (1589 – 9 September 1626) was a Flemish painter who specialized in small cabinet-sized forest landscapes in the manner of Jan Brueghel the Elder and Gillis van Coninxloo. He was a regular collaborator with other artists who w ...

acted as one of the witnesses at the wedding. Like van der Lanen, Abraham Govaerts was a young landscape painter and the two men were close friends. After the premature death of Abraham Govaerts on 9 September 1626, van der Lanen was one of the artists who were tasked with completing the works left unfinished by Govaerts. The other artists were

Alexander Keirincx Alexander KeirincxAlexander Keirincx
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Abraham Govaerts and Sebastiaen Vrancx, ''An elegant couple strolling through the forest''
at Gallerie Lowet de Wotrenge The time of death of van der Lanen is not known with certainty but it is believed he died in Antwerp sometime between 1626 and 1644.

Works

Jasper van der Lanen was a specialist landscape painter. He is known for his wooded landscapes with figures representing mythological or biblical stories or pastoral scenes. His work was only rediscovered in the mid-20th century. The discovery of additional signed works has made it possible to better understand the artist's style. As a result, there have been more attributions to him of works, which had previously been attributed to other painters with which he shared a similar approach to landscape painting such as

. Jasper van der Lanen was working in a style that was similar to that of the contemporary Antwerp landscape artist Abraham Govaerts, with whom he was friends. His paintings share motifs and composition patterns with Govaerts work. Govaerts continued and developed further on the 16th-century landscape formula that divided space into receding planes, distinguished by color: earth tones and ochres for the first plane, various tones of green for the middle ground and blue tones for the last, distant plane. They further used devices to allow the viewer to penetrate the landscape from the foreground into the distance, thus created a dynamic landscape composition. Van der Lanen distinguished himself from Govaerts by reserving more space for the figures in the foreground, treating the props of his landscapes, such as the trunks of trees or clusters of yellowing with more detail, and painting reflections on the water and leaves with distinctly outlined edges.Jasper van der Lanen, ''Landscape with travellers in a forest''
at the National Museum Kraków Typical hallmarks of van der Lanen's style are the clear diagonal perforations and the frequent use of broken tree trunks in the foreground. As was common in Antwerp artistic practice of the time, van der Lanen collaborated with specialist figure painters who added the figures to his landscapes. The painter

Frans Francken the Younger Frans Francken the Younger (1581 in Antwerp, 1581 – 6 May 1642, in Antwerp) was a Flemish painter who created altarpieces and furniture panels and gained his reputation chiefly through his small and delicate cabinet pictures with historical, ...

often added the staffage in his works as did

Hans III Jordaens Hans III Jordaens (1590 – 1643), was a Flemish Baroque painter. Biography According to the RKD his birth year and place is uncertain. He could have been born in Delft as a son of Hans Jordaens, or he may have been born in Antwerp as a re ...

. In some cases more than two artists worked on the same composition as in the case of ''The Four Elements'', in which van der Lanen painted the landscape, Frans Francken the Younger added some figures and

filled in the animals, the flowers and the plants on the right as well as the figures in the middle distance.Jan Brueghel (II), Frans Francken (II), Jasper van der Lanen (attributed), ''The Four Elements''
at Christie's

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