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Attributed to Jan Thomas Ypres 1617 - 1673 Vienna
Description
- Jan Thomas
- a pastoral landscape with shepherds drinking and eating under a tree, together with a bagpipe player and a lute player, a flock of sheep nearby
- oil on canvas, in an elaborate 18th Century carved and gilt wood frame
Provenance
Catalogue Note
The attribution to Jan Thomas van Yperen (now called just Jan Thomas) was first suggested by Frans Baudouin. Formerly attributed to Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678), it shares strong stylistic similarities, especially in the landscape, with a work by Thomas, a Sleep of Diana, in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (inv. no. M.I. 973).
Born in 1617, Thomas was one of the last pupils of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640). He became a master in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1639/40 and left the Low Countries around 1654 to work in Mainz and subsequently, in 1658, in Frankfurt-am-Main. In 1661 he moved to Vienna where he was held in high regard, and where he eventually died in 1678. This painting was probably done in the artist's Antwerp period, before 1654, when he was still greatly influenced by the works of his teacher Rubens and his fellow-artist Jordaens.