Antique Framed Oil Painting on Canvas by Edgar De Vos 'Lake Landscape'
2603-26801A (Click to Inquire About This Item)
25H x 33W x 1.5D
Location: Dallas
Edward De Vos's "Lake Landscape" captures a still summer afternoon at the water's edge, where a moored rowboat waits beneath a row of willows and a golden haystack glows against the distant woods. The artist builds the foliage with patient, finely textured brushwork, layering greens leaf by leaf as a pale silver light filters through the overcast sky. Reflections drift across the lake in gentle broken strokes, carrying the haystack, the trees and the old mooring posts down into the water and giving the composition its depth and its sense of calm.
De Vos belongs to the long line of Low Countries painters who found poetry in the flat, water laced countryside, where willows, meadows and slow waterways shaped the rhythm of rural life. His approach reflects the realist and plein air traditions that transformed European landscape painting in the late 19th century, with close attention to light, weather and season. The punt resting at the bank and the harvest gathered in the field tell a gentle story of daily work paused for a moment, inviting the viewer to linger at the shore.
Presented in a giltwood frame with a wide linen liner and an inner gilt slip, which surround the landscape with an airy border and draw out the warm golden tones of the haystack. Signed lower right.
Circa early 1900s
Measures 25H x 33W x 1.5D
At the time of this writing a complementary work by the same artist is available ~ see Related Products below left.
Available at Inessa Stewart's Antiques, Dallas Design District, Dallas, Texas.
