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| Title | Landscape with a Fountain | |
| Collection | Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery | |
| Artist | Attributed to Bloemen, Jan Frans van (Flemish painter, 1662-1749, active in France and Italy) | |
| Date Earliest | possibly about 1713 | |
| Date Latest | possibly about 1716 | |
| Description | Jan Frans van Bloemen, born in Antwerp, settled in Italy as a young man and most of his work is based on the scenery of the Roman campagna. This arcadian scene, with its gargoyle-head fountain and figures in poses recalling antique sculpture, is less a faithful record of a specific site than an idealised, imaginative composite. Bloemen used the same fountain in numerous other compositions. | |
| Current Accession Number | MNEMG Bentlif 3.1897.14 | |
| Subject | landscape; figure; buildings and gardens | |
| Measurements | 77.7 x 58.7 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | George Amatt Bentlif collection, bequeathed through his brother Samuel 1897. | |
| Publications | Allchin, J. H., A guide to the Collections in the Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery, Maidstone, 1909, no. 3; Legouix, S., Foreign Paintings Catalogue, Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery, Maidstone, 1976, p. 9. | |
| Notes | This is an oval painting set in a rectangular frame; measurements are therefore the maximum height and width. The dating is based on the fact that Bloemen used the same fountain in another composition (Landscape with Three Figures and a Fountain), now in a private collection in Rome, dated 1714. | |
| Rights Owner | © Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery | |
| Author | Dr Rachel Sloan | |