Balthasar Paul OmmeganckBelgio, 1755–1826Rocky Landscape
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Although nearly forgotten today, the Belgian artist Balthasar Paul Ommeganck was a renowned, successful, and widely imitated painter during his lifetime. At the height of his career, Ommeganck captured a prestigious award at the Paris Salon of 1799 without even entering the competition, the Empress Josephine purchased one of his works every year, and his entire output was sold in advance. He played a leading role in the art schools and associations of Antwerp and belonged to the academies of Amsterdam, Brussels, Munich and Vienna. His contemporaries hailed him as the "Raphael of Sheep" and the "Racine of Sheep"--flattering honorifics that sound ridiculous or satirical to us, but were certainly meant as the highest form of praise for an artist who specialized in pastoral scenes with prominent cattle.
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Ommeganck adapted the poetic, golden light, Mediterranean scenery, and idyllic mood depicted by Aelbert Cuyp and Dutch Italianate painters of the seventeenth-century, although he occasionally set his herdsmen and animals in the rugged landscape of Belgium's Ardennes. The latter views are based on careful observation. Like his Belgian contemporary Simon Denis-a fellow pupil in the studio of the Antwerp painter Hendricus-Josephus Antonissen-Ommeganck was a precursor of the nineteenth-century practice of making detailed studies from nature.
"Rocky Landscape" exemplifies this naturalistic approach. A gray-wash sketch that captures the lively play of light in a clearing beneath a rocky outcropping, it is the kind of close study of an unprepossessing corner of the forest, clearly executed directly from the motif, that would become the norm for the next generation of landscapists.
--William W. Robinson
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- 2008.47
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