Hot Pamono After Jan Miel, Landscape, 1650, Oil on Canvas

The Return from the Hunt

Oil on canvas (51 x 66 cm – Framed 74 x 89 cm)

The work, both in terms of the scene’s layout and the composition, is a typical example of the Flemish painter Jan Miel (Antwerp, 1599 – Turin, 1663), a master of the Bambocciata genre. Inspired by the genre’s founder, Pieter van Laer, known as Bamboccio, he painted popular and picturesque scenes and spread the fashion of depicting daily life in the Eternal City.

Characteristic of this movement of painters was the depiction of popular scenes of everyday life in papal Rome, rejecting the canons and official subjects of the time, as we can clearly see from our canvas: on the bank of a river in an Italian landscape, two men have just returned from hunting and are laying out their prey on the ground, including various birds, a duck, a snipe, and a hunted rabbit. A small black and white dog barks at the killed birds. On the right, a kneeling woman, dressed in a red dress and white apron, is releasing two pigeons from the covered basket in front of her, cheering the little boy sitting next to her, his hands outstretched in surprise.

A playful and lively attention to realism is always present in his paintings.

The canvas allows us to appreciate the artist’s care in depicting the various protagonists, their gestures and clothing, the attention to detail that indicates a true-to-life vision and study of everyday life, read and interpreted without literary filters but with a distinct, sincere, and passionate naturalism.

‘The Return from the Hunt,’ the subject of this study, is certainly a creation of the painter, a similar but slightly larger version of which has appeared on the antiques market.

We can also identify some typical features of the master, which we find in other works with similar subjects, such as the stone arch covered with unkempt grass.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

The work is presented in a beautiful gold frame and is sold with a certificate of authenticity and guarantee.