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[2BNLightened]

I'm trying to find out the name of either/both a painter or one of his paintings.

I took an Art History class in 1994. The book we used was, "Gardner's Art Through the Ages, Ninth Edition, ©1991 by Harcourt Brace & Company," unfortunately this particular slide the professor showed us was not in the book. She added it because she thought it was worth mentioning because of his style of leaving no brush strokes.

I'm sorry but these are the best leads I can give you.

Period: Either the Renaissance or Baroque/Rococo. (Sorry about the wide time span)

Subject: Landscape.

Style: Realism. (At least that's what I'd call it)

Sex: Male.

Texture: No Brush Strokes.

My take when seeing it: Photo Realistic.

I believe it was oil on canvas. Also he may have been either Dutch or Flemish, I'm not sure.

The reason the professor pointed the artist/painting out was the lack of brush strokes. (Sorry for the reiteration but I believe this was her main point and would imagine that it's the best clue).

Thanks for any thoughts you might have.

[jakebarnes]

Vermeer's View of Delft perhaps?

[violetvivian]

View of Delft is a good guess...I bet that's it.

Maybe another option: This ventures a little outside of your other qualifications, but based on the "no visible brushstrokes," I wonder if your professor was discussing Poussinistes vs. Reubenistes? Nicolas Poussin is a French painter who worked during the height of the Baroque, but his style is more aligned with the neoclassical. I don't think I would call his paintings photorealistic, but he was very much into finishing his canvases by erasing any evidence of visible brushstrokes.

Good luck!

[2BNLightened]

I'm getting old and it was 17 years ago, but I believe it was a country setting on land looking towards either a lake or some sort of water way with a cottage/country house on the same shore the viewer is standing on, on the left hand side of the painting.

I believe that the photo realistic quality I mentioned was a function of the lack of visible brush strokes and relative to all the works I had seen up until that point. Keep in mind that the professor was following the chapter sequence of our text book which started with "Venus of Willendorf, c. 28,000-25,000 B.C." and was chronological ending with modern art.

Thanks to both of you for taking the time to respond.

Does that ring a bell, or does anyone else have any ideas?

TIA

[Herbie]

I'm just going to toss out names.

Ruisdael? As someone mentioned, Poussin? Claude Lorrain? van Eyck? Peter Paul Rubens?

I feel like I'm going to implode. Esp after my course in Northern Ren and the photo-realistic/invisible brush stroke approaches of many artists.

. . . .

/me combusts

[Octavia3]

Hmmm....not really my area of expertise, but it sounds like something Ruisdael would have done.

Ruisdael? As someone mentioned, Poussin? Claude Lorrain? van Eyck? Peter Paul Rubens?