Lot 09

Gillis van Conixloo I. (1544 - 1607) (attributed) TREE

Coninxloo ranks as one of the most important Flemish landscape painters of around the turn of the 17th century. Beginning in the 1590s Coninxloo introduced a new approach into Flemish landscape painting, with close-up views of forests. While earlier forest landscapes had used forests as the backdrop for human activity, van Coninxloo turned them into the subject proper by submerging tiny human figures in elaborate compositions of trees on a hugely exaggerated scale.