18th-century Flemish painter, Follower of Jan van der Meer, known as Vermeer of Utrecht (Schoonhoven, circa 1630 - 1692)
Courting scene at the entrance of an inn
oil on canvas, 70 x 62 cm (with frame 80 x 72 cm)
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This pleasant genre scene, depicting a young innkeeper amiably conversing with a gentleman as she prepares to serve him wine in a glass chalice still held in her hand, is inspired by the painting created in 1653 by the Dutch painter Jan van der Meer, known as Vermeer of Utrecht, and now housed in Paris at the Louvre Museum (https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010062141).
Set outside an inn or post office, the scene illustrates the theme of seduction, with the young waitress being courted by the customer, a charming traveler in a shimmering red cloak, who tries to bewitch her.
It is a work that harmoniously combines the Dutch origins of the painter, with the stylistic characteristics learned during his training in his homeland, with the Italianate characters learned during his trip to Italy around 1655. In Rome, in particular, he met and collaborated with several authors of the Bamboccianti school, first of all Jan Miel.
The work shows an incredible chromatic refinement and a luminous effect, of typical Flemish derivation, capable of enveloping this moment of daily life with an aura of rare poetry and intimacy. The result is to be immersed in a suspended atmosphere, as if out of time.
The canvas allows us to appreciate the care with which the artist describes the protagonists, their gestures, attention that indicates a vision and a study from life of daily life, read and interpreted without literary filters but with marked naturalism, sincere and passionate.
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