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Forest Landscape with a Distant Castle
Creator
Denys van AlslootFlemish Artist · 1570–1628
All works by this person →Denys van Alsloot, a tapestry maker's son, pioneered the Brussels landscape school. He joined the painters guild there in 1599, around the same time that he was named official painter to Archduke Albert and Archduchess Isabella, for whom he created landscape paintings, images of court festivities, and designs for at least one set of tapestries. Alsloot's most famous and lucrative commission was a
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- 1608
- Medium
- Pen and brown ink and brush and brown and blue-gray wash
- Culture
- Flemish
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
This tranquil landscape with buildings in the distance is a symphony of varied lines enhanced by a delicate use of wash. Denys van Alsloot's fragile line ranges from the elegant curves of the tree trunks to squiggles suggesting leaves to almost dotlike notations for the grasses in the marsh at the center. Alsloot, official painter to the Brussels court, often created imaginary scenes like this one, including castles and abbeys seen in the nearby forest of Soignes. A central clump of trees clearly divides the scene; at right, trees surround a path, and to the left a river meanders through rocks and mountains, stretching into a panoramic view. At least two of Alsloot's paintings show the same composition in mirror image.
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