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Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Philips Koninck

Panoramic Landscape with a City in the Background

1655
Oil on canvas.
83.4 x 127.5 cm
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
Inv. no.
211
(
1930.42
)
Not on display
  • Level 2 Permanent Collection
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  • Level 0 Carmen Thyssen Collection and Temporary exhibition rooms
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 13 15 16 17 18 22 19 20 21 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Recommended start of the visitClassical rooms
1 14th Century. Early Italian Painting 2 15th Century. German and Spanish Painting 3 15th Century. Early Netherlandish Painting 4 15th Century. Italian Painting 5 15th and 16th Centuries. Renaissance Portraiture 6 16th Century. Villahermosa Gallery 7 16th Century. Italian Painting 8 15th and 16th Centuries. German Painting 9 15th and 16th Centuries. German Painting 10 16th Century. Netherlandish Painting 11 Tiziano, Tintoretto, Bassano and  El Greco 12 17th Century. Caravaggio and Baroque Painting 13 17th Century. Italian, French and Spanish Painting 14 17th Century. Italian, French and Spanish Painting 15 17th Century. Italian, French and Spanish Painting 16 18th Century. Italian Painting 17 18th Century. Italian Painting 18 18th Century. Italian Painting 19 Classical rooms 20 Classical rooms 21 Classical rooms 22 18th Century. Italian Painting 23 17th Century. Dutch Painting. Landscape 24 18th Century. French and English Painting 25 17th Century. Dutch Painting. Scenes of Daily Life and Interiors 26 17th Century. Dutch Painting. Landscape 27 17th Century. Dutch Painting. Portrait 28 17th Century. Dutch Painting. Landscape 29 19th Century. European Painting. Goya and Romanticism  
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30 18th and 19th Centuries. Transatlantic Relations 31 19th Century. American Landscape and Environmental Awareness 32 19th Century. American Landscape and Urban Life 33 Recovering the ligth. Restoration of Waterloo Bridge, by André Derain 34 20th Century. Expressionist Landscapes 35 20th Century. Expressionist Portraits 36 20th Century. The Language of the Body 37 20th Century. Urban unrest 38 20th Century. Flowers 39 20th Century. Pioneers of abstraction 40 20th Century. Popular flavor 41 20th Century. The Cubist Tradition I 42 20th Century. The Cubist Tradition II 43 20th Century. Abstract Utopias 44 20th Century. Dada and Surrealism 45 20th Century. Interwar Realisms 46 20th Century. American Abstraction I 48 20th Century. Post-ward American Art 49 20th Century. Post-ward European Figurative Art 50 20th Century. Informalisms 51 20th Century. Homo Ludens 52 20th Century. Pop Art 53 Postpop rooms 54 Postpop rooms 55 Postpop rooms 56 Postpop rooms Rodin Exhibition room
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Temporary exhibition rooms Conference room EducaThyssen Workshop
Landscape was a leading genre in 17th-century Dutch painting. During that century Dutch artists succeeded in formulating a type of representation that allowed them to depict the world around them in which their daily activities took place. The importance that they conceded to the landscape and their appreciation of the countryside as a place of leisure lay at the heart of the new appreciation for landscape painting and are important factors that should be borne in mind when analysing the growing autonomy and evolution of this genre. Over the course of the century, Dutch landscape painting evolved to an enormous degree while the number of artists working in this genre and the large body of work that they produced need to be understood as a response to the popularity of this genre. However, this popularity could only arise within a free market with a high demand for such paintings, which were accessible to a growing middle class and not just to the wealthiest sectors of society.

The precedents for landscape as an autonomous genre are to be found in miniatures in Books of Hours, in the detailed views that early Netherlandish painters incorporated into their compositions and, by the 16th century, in the work of artists such as Patinir and Pieter Bruegel. In their compositions, particularly those of Patinir, the figures are merely accessory elements that give the paintings their titles while the true protagonist is the background.

In the 19th century this canvas belonged to Pavel Pavlovich, Prince of San Donato, whose collection was housed in his palace near Florence. It was reproduced in an article by Leroi published in 1880 on the Prince’s collection. In 1880, five years before the Prince’s death, the canvas was auctioned with other items and was acquired by Adolf J. Bösch for his collection at Oberdöbling, Vienna. It was later with Charles Sedelmeyer in Paris, with James Simon in Berlin, and with Jacques Goudstikker in Amsterdam. It was acquired from Goudstikker by Hans Thyssen-Bornemisza for his collection in 1928.

Koninck’s early works reveal the influence of artists such as Rembrandt and Hercules Segers. By the late 1640s he had formulated his own style and produced his finest works between the 1650s and mid-1660s.

Koninck was responsible for inventing the panoramic view, a format that is considered to be one of the most original contributions to landscape painting, while the artist is considered to be one of the leading representatives of classic Dutch landscape painting. His subjects, including the present Panoramic View with a City in the Background, are based on the lowlands of Gelderland although it has not been possible to identify any specific location. Koninck used horizontal formats for these large compositions, creating the horizon with soft lines that divide the surface into two clearly defined areas, all presented from a high viewpoint. The artist realised his finest works in 1654 and 1655 and the present work dates from the latter year.

Koninck constructed his composition using a foreground of gentle hills, precisely illuminated and painted with a lively brushstroke. The sense of depth is created through horizontal strips of water, land and trees that alternate in compact areas of light and shade. To increase this illusion of depth in the background planes, Koninck used a loose, flowing brushstroke that contrasts with the tighter handling of the foreground. The horizon line is so subtly conveyed that it is difficult to tell where the hills, sky and land begin and end and the artist obtains atmospheric effects of the highest quality. In this canvas Koninck abandons devices used in earlier works that were intended to lead the eye into the landscape, such as a path that begins in the foreground or which surrounds and isolates various elements. Overall, this canvas reveals the extremely high level of technical skill that Koninck was capable of achieving.

The canvas has been compared to others of the same date in which Koninck experimented with different motifs to create a sense of spatial recession. They are Landscape with a Path next to a River in the National Gallery, London, Panoramic Landscape with a Windmill belonging to the Trustees of the Firle Estate Settlements, Firle Place, Lewes, Landscape with Farmhouses and a Path in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and Panoramic View in the Muzeul National Brukenthal in Sibiu, Rumania.

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