PIETER RIJSBRAECK Lot n° 1122

(Antwerp, 1655 - Brussels. 1729) Classical Landscape Oil on canvas, 98X117 cm A pupil of the landscape painter Philips Augustijn Immenraet, Rijsbraeck is recorded as a pupil in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1672-1673, later moving to England where he was active from 1675-1677. The following year, on the other hand, he is attested to have been in Paris where he worked until 1688, acquiring a clear classical sensibility, influenced by Italian landscape painting by evidently looking at the examples of Claude Lorrain, Gaspard Dughet and Jan Frans van Bloemen, probably through the style of Frederick de Moucheron but especially of Francisque Millet (Antwerp, 1642 - Paris, 1678) and his son Jean François (Paris, 1666 - 1723) arriving at very personal results in invention and elegance. In our case, the peculiar scenic and chromatic luminosity is striking, as is the attention to describing aspects of nature and archaeological evidence. The work is accompanied by critical entries by Ferdinando Arisi and Raffaella Colace. Reference bibliography: K. Brosens, G. Delmarcel, Landschappen met jachttaferelen door Norbert Van Bloemen en Pieter Rysbrack (ca. 1700). Brussels 2013, pp. 239-254