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A Formal Garden
Creator
Johannes JansonDutch Artist · 1729–1784
All works by this person →Johannes Janson was sent from Indonesia to Holland at the age of eight and apprenticed to the army's engineering section. After resigning his military functions, he settled in Leyden and was listed in its guild in 1761 under the name of Jacobus. Janson is known for his idyllic landscapes filled with animals and village scenes, painted in the style of seventeenth-century Dutch artists such as Paulu
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- 1766
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- Dutch
- Department
- Paintings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Prosperous eighteenth-century Dutch citizens were so proud of their gardens that they hired artists like Johannes Janson to record them for posterity. The estate shown here may have been located in the province of Noordholland, north of Amsterdam. The picture shows the wealth and the sophisticated leisure afforded by the estate: the promenade at left leads to farmland, while the path at right leads to a shipping scene, two primary sources of Holland's prosperity. The flower gardens in the foreground form a *broderie parterre,* literally "embroidery flower bed"; these gardens were often designed by the same artists who made drawings for bedspreads, bed hangings, and other items. They were not filled with flowers but with a contrasting soil or gravel, neatly framed with small box plants.
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