2/12/2013

Droochsloot follows Breughel


Jan Corneliszoon Droochsloot was a seventeenth-century painter from Utrecht, leader of the guild of St. Luke there, who did not follow the Utrecht fashion of those days.
That fashion was: to imitate Caraveggio with bright dark-light contrasts. As this picture shows, 
Droochsloot quietly went on to work in the Breughelian fashion. This painting (58 x 80 cm) is for sale at Stahl, Hamburg.

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