Master of the blue landscapes

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A draftsman who worked in Rome in the middle of the 17th century is named as the master of blue landscapes . The artist , who is not known by name, is named after a series of his wash pen drawings, which he created in ink on blue-gray sketch paper. These represent landscapes around Rome. The sketches can be dated to 1650 by comparing the buildings and their architecture. Since a single French word can sometimes be found on the sketches, it is assumed that the master of the blue landscapes came from France.

The master of the blue landscapes was probably active in the environment of the Italian architect and painter Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi , who was active as a papal architect and painter in Rome around 1650 and who painted some baroque landscapes. The numerous sketches of the blue landscapes were first attributed to the baroque painter Claude Lorrain , who came from France and worked in Rome . Lorrain had developed his own lyrical-romantic style, classicist baroque landscape painting. The sketches were then recognized as the work of an independent artist. There are differences in the type of wash used in the sketches compared to the wash used by Claude.

Stylistically, the master of the blue landscapes is a typical representative of baroque landscape painting and landscape drawings in Rome in the 17th century; the master works with rapid, dynamic pen strokes and gave his drawings depth through the wash.

Sketches by the master of blue landscapes can now be found in many well-known museums such as the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, the National Gallery of Art in Washington or the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. Further works can be found in private ownership.

literature

  • Marcel Röthlisberger: Drawings around Claude. Part One: A group of Grimaldesque Drawings . In: Master Drawings, III, 1965, pages 369-380

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marcel Röthlisberger: Drawings around Claude. Part One: A group of Grimaldesque Drawings . In: Master Drawings, III, 1965, pages 369-380
  2. ↑ Katrin Bellinger: (Ed.): Master Of The Blue Landscape - Trees by a River . Catalog entry for the exhibition Master Drawings presented by Katrin Bellinger and Florian Haerb . Galerie Colnaghi London, June 2013 (online version accessed November 2013 [1] )
personal data
SURNAME Master of the blue landscapes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century
DATE OF DEATH 17th century