Lot 1067 Dα

Jacques de Bruyn was a highly interesting personality, active in Flanders and France in the late 17th century. He is recorded in Paris and Antwerp in 1654 where he worked as an artist and art dealer. He was a business partner of the well-known still life painters Jean Michel Picart and Guillaume Forchondt. Together with his partners, he fed the high demand for Dutch paintings in France. He is also later documented in Lille, which was annexed to France in 1667.
The signatures on this pair of Southern landscapes secure their attribution as rare authentic works of Jacques de Bruyn. They stand firmly in the tradition of Nicolaes Berchem and the Dutch Italianates - the warm light, panoramic landscape, and figures all evoke the atmosphere of the south.