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Forest Road at Evening
Creator
Lucas van UdenFlemish Artist · 1595–1672
All works by this person →Lucas van Uden was the son of the town painter of Antwerp, then a world capital and artistic center. In about 1627 he joined Antwerp's Guild of Saint Luke as a "master's son." Though he traveled along the Rhine from 1644 to 1646 and didn't appear in records there for a period around 1649, he spent most of his career in Antwerp. Van Uden's great talent was for observing nature. According to his bio
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- about 1640–1650
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and watercolor; framing line in brown ink
- Culture
- Flemish
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Lucas van Uden often set out into the countryside early in the morning to make landscape sketches. This particular drawing of an imaginary, idyllic panorama was made as a highly finished, independent work of art and was probably an elaboration of one of his early morning sketches. The composition displays van Uden's most familiar motifs, many of which derive from Peter Paul Rubens's work: cattle and the woman balancing a milk container on her head, the shimmering birch trees at left, and a path leading to a deep vista that opens onto a flat landscape punctuated by a church spire. Sunlight filters through the scintillating leaves of trees on the left, an effect that van Uden so favored that he often made it the focal point of his drawings.
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