HERMAN VAN SWANEVELT| A landscape with figures among ancient ruins

Private collection, France;

With Eric Turquin, Paris, March 2012.

A. C. Steland, 'Herman van Swanevelt: Neu aufgetauchte Werke', in Liber Amicorum Marijke de Kinkelder, Collegiale bijdragen over landschappen, marines en architectuur, The Hague 2013, p. 381, reproduced fig. 5.

Though Dutch by birth, Herman van Swanevelt spent much of his career working in Rome and Paris. His paintings are often considered reminiscent of those by Claude Lorrain; both artists painted the first 'revolutionary' pictures that mastered the depiction of light, whether this took the form of sunlight on a fresh morning or the glow of dusk. In the present painting, Swanevelt uses touches of pink to illuminate the clouds in the sky, thus imbuing the atmosphere with warmth.