The Peasants Returning From The Fields
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Galleria Palatina, Florence |
The Peasants' Return From The Fields is a c. 1640 painting by
History
The dating of the work has fluctuated between 1620 and 1635, the year in which the painting was copied and the copy was signed and dated by its maker.
The most convincing hypotheses date the painting to the early 1630s. Some date The Peasants' Return to 1632–1634, when it would perhaps have been a collaboration with Lucas van Uden.[1] Others to the latest phase of Rubens' production, in 1640. For the cart, the artist used two preparatory drawings. One (at Chatsworth House, in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire) depicts a reaper on the right, and the other depicts two carts (in the collection of the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, n. 3237). There are other parallels between the second figure on the right and the peasant woman on the right in drawings at the Uffizi's Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe collection. Meanwhile, the five people on the right can be seen in a copy of the Reubens' in the Albertina museum.
The Peasants' Return has long been a pendant, a companion piece, to
Description and style
The protagonist of the painting is the landscape, with the bucolic scene appearing as a simple pretext for the representation. The composition looks out from a high point onto the vista, on a countryside punctuated by trees and a horizon that falls, more or less, at the middle of the painting. Various people, in small scale, specify the moment of representation in the style of genre paintings by
It is likely a landscape of
Bibliography
- Chiarini, Marco (1998). Palazzo Pitti, galleria Palatina e Appartamenti Reali. Livorno: Sillabe. ISBN 978-88-86392-48-8.
References
- ^ a b "N. Cat. 00129513. Rubens Pieter Paul". Catalogo delle opere. Polo Museale Fiorentino. Retrieved 20 December 2020.