After returning to the Netherlands, Savery continued to paint mannered, fantasy landscapes. To create depth, he often divided his paintings into three consecutive bands: an earthy foreground with trees, a central vista, and a blue background. The more elevated parts of the riverbank act as coulisses and therefore enforce the effect of depth. In the centre of the composition, an ibis attacks an ostrich, which is surrounded by two swans, a pelican, a rooster and a goose. While the atmosphere to the left is troubled, the right hand side, where the deer stand watching, exudes serenity.
| Artist |
Roelant Savery
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Hans II Savery
RKD
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| Title | Landscape with Ostrich |
| Date | ca. 1625 |
| Period | 17th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) bottom left on a stone: ROELANDT / SAVERY. |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1953-P |
| Acquisition credit |
gift
The Friends of the Museum Ghent 1953 |
| Current whereabouts | Work on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1953-P |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/2335/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300015636
landscapes
AAT
300263554 animal paintings AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
21D
water (one of the four elements)
Iconclass
22C light Iconclass 22C1 natural light Iconclass 22C8 shadow Iconclass 25F24(DEER) hoofed animals: deer Iconclass 25F3 birds Iconclass 25F36(GOOSE) water-birds: goose Iconclass 25F36(PELICAN) water-birds: pelican Iconclass 25F36(SWAN) water-birds: swan Iconclass 25F38(OSTRICH) walker and runner birds: ostrich Iconclass 25G11 groups of trees Iconclass 25G3 trees Iconclass 25G31 shrubs Iconclass 25H1 landscapes in the temperate zone Iconclass 25H112 rocks Iconclass 25H15 forest, wood Iconclass 25H153 bush, shrubs ~ forest Iconclass 25H2 landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone) Iconclass 25H2143 pond, pool Iconclass 26A clouds Iconclass 300015636 landscapes AAT |
| School / Style | Baroque AAT |
| Roelandt Savery / Paul Eeckhout. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 54-55) |
| Roelandt Savery [1969] / Paul Eeckhout. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 326, nr. 698) |
| Roelant Savery : Kortrijk 1576 - 1639 Utrecht ; Hofmaler Kaiser Rudolf II in Prag ; Die Gemälde mit kritischem Oeuvrekatalog / Kurt J. Müllenmeister. - Freren : Luca Verlag, 1988 (p. 271, nr. 164) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent / Robert Hoozee. - Brussel : Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, 1988 (p. 34, 38) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent = Museum of Fine Arts Ghent / Claudie De Guillebon, Jacques Ostier, Robert Hoozee, Monique Tahon-Vanroose. - Parijs : Association des Amis de "Musées 2000", 1989 (p. 63 (ill. 115)) |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. I, p. 23-149 (ill.)) |
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