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| Title | Campagna Landscape | |
| Collection | Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne | |
| Artist | Attributed to Bloemen, Jan Frans van (Flemish painter, 1662-1749, active in France and Italy) | |
| Date Earliest | possibly about 1680 | |
| Date Latest | possibly about 1720 | |
| Description | The Flemish painter Jan Frans van Bloemen spent much of his career in Italy, where he became known as 'Orizzonte' because of the wide horizons he employed in his landscapes. In this typical idealised Italianate Arcadian scene the garments the figures wear are derived from antiquity. The landscape dwarfs the figures, and the viewer's eye is led, via a herd of cows, towards the town in the background. In the far background, the gentle countryside gives way to the grandeur of mountain peaks, a very different sort of countryside to the flatter lands of van Bloemen's traditional Flanders. | |
| Current Accession Number | TWCMS:F13604 | |
| Former Accession Number | LAG 46-78 | |
| Subject | landscape; figure; animal (cows); townscape | |
| Measurements | 72.2 x 137.2 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by T. R. Heppell, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1946. | |
| Notes | The address of T. R. Heppell was Hillcrest, Benton, Newcastle upon Tyne. | |
| Rights Owner | Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (Tyne and Wear Museums) | |
| Author | Elizabeth van der Beugel | |