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The Dutch painter and etcher Johannes Janson (1729–1784) depicted inhabited landscapes and rural activities. In A Formal Garden of 1766, at the Getty Museum, patterned beds organise the space before a country house. This oil on canvas connects the pleasures of the estate with signs of prosperity: one promenade leads towards farmland, another towards a shipping scene.
His prints also explore the rhythms of the calendar. April, an etching of 1783 from the Twelve Months series, shows fishermen on a bank and in a rowing boat, with a church and windmill behind them. The Rijksmuseum holds a proof made before the sky was worked. Together these works reveal a shared interest in relationships between the organisation of landscape, leisure and everyday labour.
This profile brings together identity references for Johannes Janson and paintings, drawings and works on paper documented in auction catalogues.
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Oil on wood
Blick auf das Stadttor Amsterdamse Poort in Haarlem mit Hirte und Kühen
Öl auf Holz
Catalogue period : 2023-09-18
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 700–900
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Oil on panel
Paysage hivernal
huile sur panneau
Catalogue period : 2022-11-24 — 2022-12-07
Catalogue reference — sale not confirmed
Estimate : CHF 1500–2000
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Oil on wood
Landschaft mit Hirte, Rindern, Schafen und Ziege
Öl auf Holz
Auction date : 2016-09-21
Published result : 2232 EUR
Including buyer’s premium
Estimate : 2000
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