A Formal Garden #1
by Audrey Jeanne Roberts
Title
A Formal Garden #1
Artist
Audrey Jeanne Roberts
Medium
Painting - Vintage Art - Johannes Janson 1766
Description
Art digitally retouched, Original art by Johannes Janson 1766.
This is a cropped portion from the entire image designed to coordinate with it's mate.
Prosperous eighteenth-century Dutch citizens were so proud of their gardens that they hired artists like Johannes Janson to record them for posterity. The estate shown here may have been located in the province of Noordholland, north of Amsterdam. The picture shows the wealth and the sophisticated leisure afforded by the estate: the promenade at left leads to farmland, while the path at right leads to a shipping scene, two primary sources of Holland's prosperity.
The flower gardens in the foreground form a broderie parterre, literally "embroidery flower bed"; these gardens were often designed by the same artists who made drawings for bedspreads, bed hangings, and other items. They were not filled with flowers but with a contrasting soil or gravel, neatly framed with small box plants.
A Formal Garden; Johannes Janson (Dutch, 1729 - 1784); 1766; Oil on canvas; 53.3 × 73 cm (21 × 28 3/4 in.); 78.PA.202
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January 15th, 2019
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