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Cornelis De Wael (Anversa, 1592 - Roma, 1667)
Capriccio of a fortified port with arsenal and characters
oil on canvas
h cm 161X245
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CORNELIS DE WAEL (Antwerp 1592 - Rome 1667)
The work in question is a view of a port bay with a dock in full dynamic activity, with merchants, workers, travellers and an operational arsenal.
Painting to be included in the corpus of works of "maniera grande" by the painter Cornelis de Wael.
We can define this landscape as a vedutism to be referred to with several other works of the same genre: View of a port with galley and Dutch sailing ships, on auction by Pandolfini-Florence on 14-11-2017; Scene de derbarquement sur un rivale Mediterranean - Acturial - Paris- 12-2-2025.
Although we do not find the author's signature, if we observe the character portrayed half-length on the wall under the tower we could suppose that the author wanted to make a cameo of himself, due to the absolute resemblance of the character, with the image of the painting by Anton Van Dyck, which portrays Lucas and Cornelis, it seems that from above the painter is observing, to build with the brush, a theatrical scene whose scenographic structure makes it real, naturalistic.
The painter, from above, is capturing a minute and lively episode, captured and photographed in the port environment, with a swarming vivacity of figures in movement.
capturing the breath of port life. The figures are depicted with great variety and in movement, contributing to the liveliness of the composition.
It transmits and constructs a narrative of a realistic environment, of a spatial and free breath, whose chromatic nature is made more delicate by a lively luminism: the sky, although with dark and threatening clouds, is touched by a pink that makes the light clear and bright.
The sea air in the distance is foggy and expands to the horizon in an atmospheric realism.
The work shows the unmistakable points of our production, starting from the compositional scheme that in sea ports is always similar: promontories and dock in the foreground, in the sky always swollen and moving clouds and on the dock various characters including some orientals with Turkish headdresses painted with a chromatic dotting of the clothes with touches of red, blue, white and yellow.
The insertion of classical elements such as the two towers with fortified walls, a distant castle in the background and on the dock the monument of Neptune, are often punctual characterizations in all his paintings. Due to the numerous commissions, his workshop was organized like a real business, populated by numerous collaborators.
In fact, the very precise and punctual way of painting the boats suggests the intervention of Andreas van Ertvelt.
The painting is a beautiful example of great technical skill by the Flemish painter Cornelis De Wael, a forerunner of the vedutisti painters of the following century.
ASOR Studio
CORNELIS DE WAEL (Antwerp 1592 - Rome 1667)
The work in question is a view of a port bay with a dock in full dynamic activity, with merchants, workers, travellers and an operational arsenal.
Painting to be included in the corpus of works of "maniera grande" by the painter Cornelis de Wael.
We can define this landscape as a vedutism to be referred to with several other works of the same genre: View of a port with galley and Dutch sailing ships, on auction by Pandolfini-Florence on 14-11-2017; Scene de derbarquement sur un rivale Mediterranean - Acturial - Paris- 12-2-2025.
Although we do not find the author's signature, if we observe the character portrayed half-length on the wall under the tower we could suppose that the author wanted to make a cameo of himself, due to the absolute resemblance of the character, with the image of the painting by Anton Van Dyck, which portrays Lucas and Cornelis, it seems that from above the painter is observing, to build with the brush, a theatrical scene whose scenographic structure makes it real, naturalistic.
The painter, from above, is capturing a minute and lively episode, captured and photographed in the port environment, with a swarming vivacity of figures in movement.
capturing the breath of port life. The figures are depicted with great variety and in movement, contributing to the liveliness of the composition.
It transmits and constructs a narrative of a realistic environment, of a spatial and free breath, whose chromatic nature is made more delicate by a lively luminism: the sky, although with dark and threatening clouds, is touched by a pink that makes the light clear and bright.
The sea air in the distance is foggy and expands to the horizon in an atmospheric realism.
The work shows the unmistakable points of our production, starting from the compositional scheme that in sea ports is always similar: promontories and dock in the foreground, in the sky always swollen and moving clouds and on the dock various characters including some orientals with Turkish headdresses painted with a chromatic dotting of the clothes with touches of red, blue, white and yellow.
The insertion of classical elements such as the two towers with fortified walls, a distant castle in the background and on the dock the monument of Neptune, are often punctual characterizations in all his paintings. Due to the numerous commissions, his workshop was organized like a real business, populated by numerous collaborators.
In fact, the very precise and punctual way of painting the boats suggests the intervention of Andreas van Ertvelt.
The painting is a beautiful example of great technical skill by the Flemish painter Cornelis De Wael, a forerunner of the vedutisti painters of the following century.
ASOR Studio
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