Arcadian Landscape with Palace Architecture, ca. 1730 – ca. 1740

About the Work

Isaac de Moucheron was one of the most sought-after decoration painters of his time. He enhanced the homes of wealthy citizens with wall paintings of which the majority have not survived the times. We are familiar with his art primarily from drawings that, like this one, were carried out for collectors. For his carefully composed “park landscapes”, the artist looked to French neoclassicist models of the seventeenth century for orientation. In settings combining nature and architecture with figures in ancient attire, they radiate a serene mood of arcadian bliss.