Flemish school of the 17th century. "Still life and dog".

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  Flemish school of the 17th century. "Still life and dog". Oil on canvas. Re-drawn. Signed in the left margin. Size: 119 x 180 cm; 133 x 194 cm (frame). In this canvas the tradition of the still life is combined, key in the Flemish painting of the XVII century, with the presence of alive animals, that contribute narrative sense to the scene, inside a taste for the scenographic and the realistic typical thing of the baroque. We are in front of a still life of partridges and other game birds already captured, lying in a large copper container, along with other pots in the same material. The whole is sniffed by a furious dog in a totally threatening posture, whose fur and anatomy denote the painter's taste for meticulousness and detail. The arrangement of the objects is characterized by clarity, offering a detailed vision of each one of them. Although the composition is usually based on horizontals and verticals, reinforcing the static, the author of this painting has introduced some diagonals that provide a certain baroque dynamism, although carefully restrained. During the 17th century, in Flanders there was a growing demand for paintings to decorate the houses of the bourgeoisie. Apart from portraits and large canvases with religious, historical or mythological themes, artists specialized, painting medium-sized works that gradually increased in format, with still lifes, animals, landscapes and genre scenes. The paintings that reproduce collectors' cabinets of the time are explicit in this respect, to the point of originating a new autonomous pictorial genre. Undoubtedly, the future of this painting would have been different without Rubens, whose art revolutionized the artistic panorama of Flanders, introducing a new fully baroque way and bringing a sense of unity and opulent sumptuousness to the ordered and encyclopedic sample that were the precious descriptions of his countrymen. Debtors of his manner or subordinate to his work, the specialists worked in a new line, adding to their compositions an accessory object, a landscape or a decorative background.
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