Landscape with Men Playing 'Mail à la Chicane', 1624
Paul Brilexpand_more
Oil on canvasexpand_more
The William Hood Dunwoody Fundexpand_more 40.3
On View in Gallery 312expand_more
Paul Bril was born into a family of artists in Antwerp, now the second-largest city in Belgium. Around 1580, he moved permanently to Rome, where he worked initially as a fresco painter in the Vatican. Gradually, he shifted from the Flemish painting traditions of his homeland to more classical compositions, filled with ruins and bucolic figures and imbued with a calmer, pastoral sentiment. These idealized landscapes made him famous and profoundly influenced Claude Lorrain, a French painter who moved to Rome around the time of Bril’s death, in 1626, and became the quintessential landscape painter of his time.
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- Title
- Landscape with Men Playing 'Mail à la Chicane'
- Artist Life
- 1554–1626
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 40.3
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