Landscape with Bagpipe Player
by LANEN, Jasper van der, Oil on panel, 48 x 71 cm
The landscape painting of Jasper van der Lanen was influenced by Gillis van Coninxloo and Jan Brueghel the Elder. These artists applied a traditional 16th-century formula that divided the landscape into successive planes, differentiated by the colour they received: earth tones and ochres for the first, different tones of green for the middle ground and tones of blue for the last, distant plane or background. They enriched this formula by generating profound visual penetrations going from the foreground to the furthest distance, adding great dynamism to landscape compositions.