HANS BOL (1534-1593) L'ânesse de Balaam ; Le bon Samaritain - Lot 44

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HANS BOL (1534-1593) L'ânesse de Balaam ; Le bon Samaritain - Lot 44
HANS BOL (1534-1593) L'ânesse de Balaam ; Le bon Samaritain Pair of gouaches with gold highlights Signed and dated in the centre and on the right H Bol 1583 (Ancient Restorations) 12 x 18 cm Provenance : Galerie de Jonckheere at the beginning of the 1980s, presented at the 10th and 12th Biennale Internationale des Antiquaires de Paris, at the Grand Palais.Dated from the second part of the artist's career, this refined and delicate pair of paintings reflects Hans Bol's talent for working on a small scale, praised by Karel van Mander in his biography of the artist.Here he illustrates two biblical scenes from the Old Testament and a parable from the Gospels respectively. The large trees anchor the narrative groups in the composition, while additional figures and animals dot the pastoral landscape to far-away blues. While he painted some peasant scenes, Bol mainly retained the visual revolution of Pieter Brueghel the Elder in the field of landscape painting, which he adapted in miniatures often enhanced with gold.In spite of their small size, their spatial vision is panoramic and monumentale ; the backgrounds and distances are animated with scenes and details that animate the whole. These miniatures, collected for curio cabinets (the "wunderkamer"), were the source of Bol's immense success during his lifetime, which has never waned since.Born and educated in Mechelen in a family of Protestant artists, the stages of his life were marked by a flight from the Spanish conquests. When the Catholic troops took his home town, he lost all his possessions and worked in Antwerp de 1572 à 1584. He settled in Amsterdam in 1591, when he received the title of citizen of the city, having meanwhile passed through Dordrecht and Delft.
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