Cornelis HUYSMANS (Attributed to) - Landscape with pilgrims visiting hermits

Cornelis HUYSMANS (Attributed to)
Antwerp, 1648 - Mechelen,1827
Landscape with pilgrims visiting hermits
Oil on canvas
49.2 x 58.5 cm (60 x 69.7 cm with frame)
Old label on the back: "M. Huysmans de Malines / Flemish school / 17th century / Landscape".
Beautiful giltwood frame
Good condition

Visible at the gallery

Cornelis Huysmans, known as Huysmans de Malines, was a pupil of Jacques d'Arthois in Brussels in the 1670s, before moving to Mechelen in the province of Antwerp.
He joined the Mechelen painters' guild in 1688.
Cornelis Huysmans' art is unmistakable: a landscape of rocks and tall trees, a kind of sandy waterfall on which the light falls. As Emile Michel writes, "By contrasting the vivid fractures of these limestone rocks with the yellowish greens of the vegetation and the luscious blue of the distant landscape, Huysmans has made harmonious use of these contrasts".
He is part of the Flemish landscape revival of the late 17th century.
"Huysmans' landscapes seem to vacillate between all the major landscape trends of the late eighteenth century, but end up synthesizing them in a very lyrical fashion: his dark woodland views, animated by vivid lighting effects that hold back motifs of rocks and sandy terrain, are painted with a beautiful vigor of impasto, in a heroic style close to Salvator Rosa or Dughet." (Dictionary of painting edited by Michel Laclotte and Jean-Pierre Cuzin, Larousse, 2003)
His paintings are held in numerous museums in France (the Louvre, Amiens, Caen, Le Havre, Strasbourg and Valenciennes) and Europe (Brussels, Antwerp, Dresden, Copenhagen and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg).

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