Lot 151
Charles De RoSier (Flemish/French, late 17th c.), "An Extensive Coastal Landscape, with Figures and Classical Monuments", oil on canvas, signed and inscribed "I(nvenit). & F(ecit). 1685" on tomb at left center, 63 1/2 in. x 80 in., framed. Note: This ambitious painting is a precocious performance for its relatively early date, since it strongly prefigures a famous series of "Tombs of British Worthies", from shortly after 1700, whose celebrated canvases are in many museums worldwide (as for example Marco and Sebastiano Ricci's "Tomb of Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell" in the National Gallery of Art, Washington). The genre details in three successive planes at right center bespeak this painter's Flemish heritage, while the palette of brown, grey, and fictive gilding in the monuments reflects the handling of the Central Italian vedute painters, culminating in Pannini and Codazzi. The foreground figures, as well, suggest the influence of Pietro da Cortona and Nicholas Poussin. The artist may possibly have been identical (or, perhaps more plausibly, a relation) to the Bonn musican Charles de Rosier (Flemish, 1640-1725). The painter's formula of authorship reflects a similar form used by Rembrant.
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