Minneapolis Institute of Art

Landscape with Men Playing 'Mail à la Chicane'

Paul Bril

Date

1624

Medium

Oil on canvas

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Paul Bril was born into a family of artists in Antwerp, now the second-largest city in Belgium. Around 1580, he moved permanently to Rome, where he worked initially as a fresco painter in the Vatican. Gradually, he shifted from the Flemish painting traditions of his homeland to more classical compositions, filled with ruins and bucolic figures and imbued with a calmer, pastoral sentiment. These idealized landscapes made him famous and profoundly influenced Claude Lorrain, a French painter who moved to Rome around the time of Bril’s death, in 1626, and became the quintessential landscape painter of his time. Italy, Europe

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