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Landscape with Men Playing 'Mail à la Chicane', Paul Bril, 1624
Paul Bril, portraitPaul BrilFlemish, 1554–1626

Landscape with Men Playing 'Mail à la Chicane'

1624 · Painting · 67.63 × 88.27 cm

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Where is “Landscape with Men Playing 'Mail à la Chicane'” now? Minneapolis Institute of Art, G312, Minneapolis. Yes, on view now. Checked September 29, 2026.

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Minneapolis, United States

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About the painting

Paul Bril was born into a family of artists in Antwerp, now the second-largest city in Belgium. Around 1580, he moved permanently to Rome, where he worked initially as a fresco painter in the Vatican. Gradually, he shifted from the Flemish painting traditions of his homeland to more classical compositions, filled with ruins and bucolic figures and imbued with a calmer, pastoral sentiment. These idealized landscapes made him famous and profoundly influenced Claude Lorrain, a French painter who moved to Rome around the time of Bril’s death, in 1626, and became the quintessential landscape painter of his time.

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40.3

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PaintingsOilFlemish paintingBaroque17th centuryItaly

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