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

Jacob de Heush (Utrecht 1657 – Amsterdam 1701)

Coastal landscape with architectural ruins  

Oil on canvas (80 x 102 cm - In frame 100 x 119 cm) 

Provenance: Hampel Munich, 22.09.2016 lot 969 (link) 

Expertise by Prof. Ferdinando Arisi  

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The evocative landscape depicted here, which shows us the admirable blending of the Nordic and Italian landscape traditions, is a work attributable to the Dutch painter Jacob de Heush (Utrecht 1657 – Amsterdam 1701), one of the best vedutisti active in Rome at the end of the 17th century. 

It is emblematic of his painting style, with a coastal landscape embellished with classical architecture and the ruins of an ancient colonnade on the right, bringing it closer to the architectural capriccio genre. 

Jacob de Heusch moved to Rome from his native Utrecht in 1674, where he specialised in landscape painting, taking the works of Salvator Rosa as his model and skilfully combining the characteristics of the Dutch school, in particular the attention to realistic detail, with the more Italian imaginative and lyrical tradition of landscape representation. 

The resulting peaceful, idyllic mood became the hallmark of this artist, as we can clearly see in our painting. The figures are also typical, with some details appearing in other paintings by the artist, such as the woman with the child in the foreground, reminiscent of 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 his arms open not far from her, who can also be seen in the “Landscape with Waterfall” signed and dated 1693 (see, in the aforementioned volume, pp. 80, 81, 148, ill. 54, cat. 49).  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: 

Good condition, complete with gilded frame (not antique). 

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