Draughtsman, painter and etcher, Isaac de Moucheron (1667-1744) was a revered Dutch landscapist from Amsterdam. He specialized not only in topographical views (of sites and garden layouts) but also in the creation of Arcadian scenes and fantasy garden vistas. These he executed in monochrome and coloured inks on paper a well as in oils on canvases of both small and monumental sizes. Connoisseurs collected his cabinet works while patrons commissioned large-scale paintings inserted in the wainscotting of their drawing-rooms. A type of decoration which became popular during the second half of the seventeenth century, flourished throughout the eighteenth and was Isaac's main sphere of activity. He is also remembered for his fine etchings reproducing the gardens at Heemstede, decorative panels and paintings by Gaspard Dughet, a precursor that profoundly influenced Isaac's conception of the art of landscape painting.
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Frankfurt a.M.
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Illustrationen
Maße
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978-3-631-48453-1 (9783631484531)
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The Author: Nina Wedde is Finnish, but was raised in Canada and the United States before attending the English Primary School in Gothenburg, Sweden and High School at Castle Hill, NSW, Australia. She studied French, English, Archaeology and Art History at the University of Neuchâtel before continuing with a doctoral dissertation at the University of Geneva. During research in Holland, she acted as voluntary assistant for three months to P. Schatborn at the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam.
Contents: Life and Times - Artistic Achievements - Appendices - Bibliography - Portraits of I. de Moucheron - Catalogue of Isaac de Moucheron's Oeuvre - An Inventory of Dutch Decorative Paintings - Indices - Plates.
