BLES, Herri met de
(b. ca. 1510, Bouvignes (Dinant), d. after 1550)

The Copper Mine

c. 1540
Oil on wood, 83 x 114 cm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Responding to the enormous trade in metals by South German banking families in Antwerp, Herri met de Bles painted several images depicting miners at work deep in the mountains. Here, like in his other landscapes, the painter thought in terms of a landscape with figures and not figures in a landscape.




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