Figures on a Rocky Pass c.1650-59
Oil on panel | 24.5 x 34.6 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 406510
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This is one of a pair of small panels (see also CWLF 103, 406564) depicting that sort of wild and mountainous terrain which was a formula developed by Flemish artists working in Italy, like Paulus Bril.
Provenance
Purchased by George IV from Sir Thomas Baring as part of a group of 86 Dutch and Flemish paintings, most of which were collected by Sir Thomas’s father, Sir Francis Baring; they arrived at Carlton House on 6 May 1814; recorded in the Anti Room, Ground Floor, at Carlton House in 1819 (no 135); in the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace in 1841 (no 14)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on panel
Measurements
24.5 x 34.6 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
32.8 x 43.0 x 5.6 cm (frame, external)
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A rocky pass