Adriaen Frans Boudewijns

ADRIEN FRANS BOUDEWIJNS (Brussels, 1644 - Brussels, 1711).
"Country scene".
Oil on panel.
It presents Repainting on the pictorial surface.
Signed in the lower left corner.
Measurements: 25 x 34 cm; 32,5 x 41 cm (frame).
Scene outdoors, which is presented to the viewer in an idyllic way by hosting a romantic presentation of the peasantry. Fleeing from the signs of effort and showing a cheerful society, dressed in richly colored costumes that stand out against the dark tones that dominate part of the scene. The author presents us with a classical perspective, with a vanishing point located in the center of the scene. This type of genre scene was very common in the Dutch school.
Adriaen Frans Boudewijns was a Flemish landscape painter, draughtsman and engraver. He was known mainly for his Italianate landscapes with architecture, rivers and villages, views of cities, coasts and countryside, and architectural scenes. Adriaen Frans Boudewijns was a pupil of the landscape painter and engraver Ignatius van der Stock. On December 16, 1666, Boudewijns signed a three-year contract in Paris in the service of the Flemish painter Adam Frans van der Meulen, with whom he collaborated on the design of twelve Gobelins depicting the months for the French king Louis XIV. Van der Meulen executed the smaller figures and part of the landscapes. The rest of the landscapes were executed by Boudewijns and Abraham Genoels, another Flemish painter active in Paris. Boudewijns also traveled with Genoels to make sketches of a castle near Brussels for the design of a tapestry for the king of France. While in Paris, Boudewijns engraved many of van der Meulen's compositions. He also made engravings from the work of Genoels, the Dutch artist Jan van Hughtenburgh and his own designs.
All of the surviving pictures are believed to have been painted after his return to Brussels from Paris. He often collaborated with other specialist painters who added the figures in his landscapes. Collaborations are recorded with Charles Emmanuel Biset, Pointié Dupont, his pupil Matthys Schoevaerdts and, most frequently, Pieter Bout. Boudewijns' work combines the northern tradition of landscape painting with the Roman classicism exemplified by Claude Lorrain and Poussin. His landscapes often show scenery bathed in a brilliant southern glow, sometimes with some ancient architectural element, against a vivid, naturalistic cloudy sky. These idealized, classically cut landscapes became Boudewijns' trademark. His meticulous depiction of trees shows the influence of Gaspard Dughet. All of his landscapes are meticulously painted and often populated with figures painted by Pieter Bout- In general, Boudewijns' landscapes can be divided into three types. The first type resembles the work of the landscape painters of the Sonian Forest school, such as Jacques d'Arthois and Cornelis Huysmans. A second type of landscape depicts Italianate architectural elements set in a flat landscape with a row of hills as a backdrop. Finally, he produced a series of village and river landscapes that recall the style of Jan Brueghel the Elder in terms of compositional structure and technical precision.