17th century Flemish and Dutch paintings

Baets, Marc, a pair, SOLD
A pair of animated river landscapes
Each oil on panel : 27,6 X 38,3 cm
Both unsigned
Frames : 38,2 X 48,9 cm

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About Marc Baets
 
During the late 17th century and the first half of the 18th century there was in Flanders a revival of the elder style of landscape painting. 
Inspired by Jan Brueghel the Elder (Brussels 1568 – 1625 Antwerp) younger generations of Flemish painters respectfully painted very attractive landscapes with peasant scenes in fresh colours. Typical of all of them is a bucolic sense of happiness, of “joie de vivre”, with small figures in anecdotally detailed poses set against a backdrop of a pleasing landscape or of some buildings.
 
Best known are:
His son Jan Brueghel II (Antwerp 1601 – 1678 Antwerp)
Isaac van Oosten (Antwerp 1613 – 1661 Antwerp) 
Pieter Gysels (Antwerp 1621 – 1690 Antwerp), 
Adriaen Frans Boudewijns (Brussels 1644 – 1711 Brussels)
Peter Bout (Brussels 1658 or earlier – 1719 Brussels) 
Theobald Michau (Tournai 1676 – 1765 Antwerp)
Joseph van Bredael (Antwerp 1688 – 1739 Paris)
Carel Beschey (Antwerp 1706 – 1776? Antwerp?)
Balthasar Beschey (Antwerp 1708 – 1776 Antwerp). 
 
Our painter also belongs to this group of followers of Jan Brueghel I.
Sadly nothing is known about Baets, although a lot of his paintings are known and even a fair number of them are monogrammed “M.B.
He was active in Antwerp in the first half of the 18th century.
 
Typical of Baets are:
- his use of the old fashioned Flemish three-colour-scheme: brown tonalities in the foreground, green in the middle distance and blue in the background;
- the high viewpoint and the high horizon;
- the ruined building with arches in the right or left foreground;
- the genre-like figure staffage;
- the romantic river landscape in the middle background.
 
Why should you buy this painting?
 
Because it is a pleasant, decorative, colourful pair of small landscape paintings.