A descriptive catalogue of the pictures in the Fitzwilliam museum, comp largely from materials supplied by Sidney Colvin .. . 30i 3°7. 490 Lance.] CATALOGUE OF PICTURES IO9 LAER. Pieter VAN Laer (called Bamboccio). Dutch School,17th century. Genre painter; born at Haarlem about 1590; lived in Rome from 1623 to 1639 andthen returned to Haarlem; he was still alive in 1658. He was the first to paint pictures ofItalian life in the style of Dutch genre, availing himself of the picturesqueness and colour ofItalian costume and scenery, but treating them in the Dutch manner. He also executedetchings.
A descriptive catalogue of the pictures in the Fitzwilliam museum, comp largely from materials supplied by Sidney Colvin .. . 30i 3°7. 490 Lance.] CATALOGUE OF PICTURES IO9 LAER. Pieter VAN Laer (called Bamboccio). Dutch School,17th century. Genre painter; born at Haarlem about 1590; lived in Rome from 1623 to 1639 andthen returned to Haarlem; he was still alive in 1658. He was the first to paint pictures ofItalian life in the style of Dutch genre, availing himself of the picturesqueness and colour ofItalian costume and scenery, but treating them in the Dutch manner. He also executedetchings. I. 421. Classical ruins with figures. On the 1. a slender pyramidwith a peasant in front of it; on r. a massive ruin with an arch ; infront of this three peasants, two standing and one sleeping. Seenbetween the two a distant tower on a wooded hill; a cloud-bankabove it; the rest of the sky is clear. Canvas, i 6f by 2 o£. Mesman. I. 429. Bandits cave. On each side high rocks. In foregrounda man lying, his head to r., half-naked; a man in a cuirass stands overhim and staunches a wound. To r. clothes, a cuirass, etc., strewn onthe
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