Jacob De Heush (utrecht 1657 – Amsterdam 1701), Coastal Landscape With Architectural Ruins

Jacob de Heush (Utrecht 1657 – Amsterdam 1701)
Coastal Landscape with Architectural Ruins

Oil on canvas (80 x 102 cm. – framed 100 x 119 cm.)

Provenance: Hampel Munich, September 22, 2016, lot 969 (link)

Expert opinion by Prof. Ferdinando Arisi

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This evocative landscape, which showcases a wonderful blend of Northern and Italian landscape traditions, is a work attributed to the Dutch painter Jacob de Heush (Utrecht 1657 – Amsterdam 1701), one of the finest landscape painters active in Rome at the end of the 17th century.

It represents a hallmark of his style, featuring a coastal landscape embellished with elements of classical architecture and the ruins of an ancient colonnade on the right, which bring it closer to the genre of the architectural capriccio.

Jacob de Heusch traveled to Rome from his hometown of Utrecht in 1674, where he specialized in landscape painting, taking the works of Salvator Rosa as his model and skillfully combining the characteristics of the Dutch school, particularly the attention to realistic detail, with the more Italian, imaginative, and lyrical tradition of landscape representation.

The resulting peaceful, idyllic mood became this artist’s hallmark, as we can clearly see in our painting.

The figures are also typical of his style, with some details appearing in his other paintings—such as the woman with the child in the foreground, who resembles the woman riding a horse in the “Lazio Landscape” illustrated by Andrea Burisi Vici in his monograph on the artist (Rome, Bozzi, 1997, pp. 65, 121, cat. 22, ill. 39) and the man with outstretched arms not far from her, who can also be seen in the “Landscape with Waterfall” signed and dated 1693 (see, in the cited volume, pp. 80, 81, 148, ill. 54, cat. 49).


ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Good condition, complete with a gilded frame (not period).

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