TENIERS, David the Younger (b. 1610, Antwerpen, d. 1690, Bruxelles) |
River Landscape with Rainbow (detail)1640sOil on panel Private collection | |
Along with Rubens, Teniers was among the first Flemish seventeenth-century artists to include rainbows in his compositions, not for their allegorical or religious meaning, but rather as another means by which to demonstrate his careful study of nature. |