FOUQUIER, Jacques
(b. 1590, Antwerpen, d. 1659, Paris)

Wooded Landscape with a Stream

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Distemper on paper, 381 x 378 mm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

In this striking landscape, the artist used the technique of paint diluted in water, tempera, previously adopted by miniaturists up to the preceding century. here the acuteness of observation and the freedom of the description make the work one of the masterpieces of the landscapes executed in France in the seventeenth century.




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