Landscape with Waterfall

A rocky wooded landscape with distant hills and a figure in the foreground at the foot of the waterfall. Adam Pynacker belonged to the group of Netherlandish artists known as the Dutch Italianates. The works of these artists show first-hand knowledge of the Italian terrain and from the 1650s onwards. Pynacker appears to have had a particular interest in depicting waterfalls visible for example in Mountainous landscape with a waterfall ca. 1665-70, Mauritshuis, The Hague. Nevertheless, 1343-1869 lacks Pynacker’s attention to light effects and his use of compositional elements such as trees and figures to create a sense of depth. It appears rather to be a later work by an artist looking at Pynacker's work or the lithograph after the Mauritshuis painting made by the Dutch printmaker Wijnand Nuyen (1813-1839). This would account for the more summary treatment of the falling water and the less atmospheric qualities of Pynacker's luminous skies.