18th-Century Dutch School Idealised Landscape With Resting Figures medium The composition cleverly draws your

The composition cleverly draws your eye towards the bright window and then down towards the bed

which remind us of the flappers in the Great Gatsby

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we can assume that when this was painted her surname was Ahlefeldt

he painted so many white felines that his peers dubbed him ‘Cat’ Heyer

18th-Century Dutch School Idealised Landscape With Resting Figures medium The composition cleverly draws yourA fine 18th century oil on canvas depicting two figures resting in an idealised rural landscape with setting sun. The artist has drawn their inspiration from the imagined landscapes of classical painters, such as Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin. Artists working in this manner would combine elements from their own natural world with fictional components from antiquity. Often theyd incorporate imagined ruins in a classical style as we can see towards