Barent Gael (1630/1635 – 1698)

Barent Gael (1630/1635 - 1698)

Couple of landscapes with genre scenes

(2) Oil on canvas, cm 33 x 40.5

With frame, cm 48 x 54.5

The two oil paintings on canvas are by the painter Baren Gael, born in Haarlem in 1630. Active at first in his father’s workshop, Gael is already registered with the local painters' guild in 1642, although the first part of his operatic corpus is not known. He was probably a pupil of Philips Wouwerman (1619-1668), who in turn owed money to Frans Hals (1582-1666) and Pieter Verbeck (1610-1654). From Wouwerman’s painting he broke free in the sixties of the century, as documented by A. Houbraken (De Groote Schouburgh der Nederlantse Konstschilders... vol. 3, 1753). Part of the inspiration relating to the macchiettistico genre and representative formalism, also evident in the present paintings, came to Gael certainly from colleagues in Haarlem; he left this city between 1661 and 1673, when he reached Amsterdam, The artist continued his own plentiful production of peasant scenes in the manner of Adriaen and Isaac van Ostade. In continuity with the entire sixteenth-century Flemish production, Gael also proposes in this couple the dualism typical of the Dutch genre scenes, introducing on the one hand to the serenity of natural data, on the other hand to the tumultuous vivacity of life, Sometimes flanked by scenes of religious, love or small battle scenes.  The artist stopped dating his works in 1681, even if it is wrong the historiographical belief of a time, that he was inactive at the easel between the eighties and nineties of the seventeenth century.

Gael’s paintings can now be seen in museums such as the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Birmingham Museums Trust and the Luigi Mallè Museum in Dronero. The concomitant drawing production of the artist, often superior to the mere purpose of study, falls instead into full force in the tradition of Dutch sketching, as demonstrated by the Scene with Knight today at the British Museum in London. 

With Ars Antiqua it is possible to defer all amounts up to a maximum of € 7,500 at ZERO RATE, for a total of 15 INSTALLMENTS.

Ex. Tot. € 4.500 = Monthly instalment € 300 for 15 months.

Ex. Tot. € 3.600 = Monthly instalment € 720 for 5 months.

For amounts over € 7,500 or for a longer delay in time (more than 15 installments), we can provide a personalized payment.

Contact us directly to get the best quote.

LIVE TV

- SUNDAY 17.00 - 21.00 Dig.terr. 126 - Sky 824

- Streaming on our website www.arsantiquasrl.com and on our social networks Facebook and Youtube

All the works proposed by Ars Antiqua are sold with a certificate of authenticity in accordance with the law and a detailed information sheet.

You can see the works directly at the gallery showroom in Milan, in via Pisacane 55 and 57.

We personally organize transport and delivery of works, both for Italy and abroad.