Signed lower right: (Lucas v. ud...)

Hillside landscape with pond

oil on wood panel

34 x 54 cm, with frame 51 x 71 cm.

Work published in the RDK archive: https://research.rkd.nl/nl/detail/https%3A%2f%2fdata.rkd.nl%2fimages%2f48572

Provenance: Christie's (Important Old Master Pictures, 10 July 1998, London, page 149 of the catalogue, Estimate: € 22,754 - € 30,338 (£15,000 - £20,000))

The proposed painting is attributed to Lucas Van Uden (Antwerp 1595 - 1672), a Flemish painter and engraver specialising in landscapes and active mainly in Antwerp in the 17th century.

The painting is catalogued as an autograph work in the archive of the RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History (https://research.rkd.nl/nl/detail/https%3A%2f%2fdata.rkd.nl%2fimages%2f48572), where it is listed as having passed through Christie's with an estimate of £15,000-20,000 (Important Old Master Pictures, 10 July 1998, London, page 149 of the catalogue).

Van Uden's great talent was to observe nature, often from life, reporting the luminous effects of atmospheric changes. His landscapes, which tended to be relatively traditional in terms of composition, are in fact remarkable for their skilful manipulation of light, an aspect that we can also detect in the present work, where the brightly coloured sky is clearing as a thunderstorm is drawing to a close.

In his paintings, which show sweeping but meticulously detailed views, in which the green of nature in its various shades stands out, there are small human figures: fishermen, travellers or peasants, who were often painted by David Teniers II, with whom he occasionally collaborated.

The works are based on a recurring compositional and stylistic scheme: the foreground usually has a small bank animated by figures and surmounted by slender birch trees. In the centre there are hilly landscapes that go deep into the landscape, with quiet atmospheres, small country buildings, small lakes or rivers with reflections of trees and clouds, shrubs or rows of trees with dense, rounded foliage.

Autograph works by the painter:

- Landscape with Rainbow, Shepherds and Sheep, 1648, 86 × 139 cm, oil on canvas (canvashttps://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/en/object/480729)

- Landscape with Travellers, oil on panel, 42 × 65 cm, art dealer Salomon Lilian (https://rkd.nl/images/219217)

- Hillside Landscape with Women and Cattle, dated 1644, oil on panel, 43 x 65 cm (https://rkd.nl/images/266170)

- Large landscape with an elegant group of falconers on the shore of a lake, oil on canvas, 37 x 58 cm, Private Collection Rev. Lord Augustus FitzClarence (https://rkd.nl/images/215077)

- Large landscape with the Holy Family and St. John the Baptist, oil on panel, 40 x 63 cm (https://rkd.nl/images/39023)

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