Classical Landscape with Figures
Henri Mauperché French
Having traveled to Rome in 1634, the French artist Mauperché returned to Paris five years later and became an important exponent of classical landscape painting. During the 1640s and 1650s his patrons were among the most powerful people in France. This painting is especially austere in its stagelike setting of classical architecture. The subject has not been identified, though a pointedly licentious echo seems to exist between the amorous couple and pair of dogs.
This painting was seized by the Nazis from the Lanckoronski family in Vienna in 1939 and restituted in 1945.
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