Gillis van CONINXLOO Antwerp, 1544 - Amsterdam, 1606 Moses saved from the waters Oil on oak panel, three boards Moses saved from the waters, oil on oak pannel, by G. van Coninxloo 88.50 x 123 cm (34.84 x 48.43 in.) Provenance: Alan Jacobs, London, 1986 ; Acquired from the Galerie d'Art Saint Honoré in 1987; Private collection, Nouvelle-Aquitaine Exhibitions: 'Landscapes and Seasons. Aspects de l'art néerlandais du 17ème siècle', Paris, Galerie d'Art Saint Honoré, Saison 1987-1988, p. 6-8, n° 1 (with poor visual), repr. on cover Comment: Born in Antwerp, Gillis III van Coninxloo was the emblematic representative of the Frankenthal school, which revolutionised landscape art in the 1580s. Like some of his compatriots of the Reformed faith, Coninxloo had to flee Antwerp after the city was taken over by Alexander Farnese in 1585. He found refuge in the free town of Frankenthal, in a mountainous environment that strongly inspired the landscapes of these painters from the "flat country". Gillis Hondecoeter and Alexander Kierincx, along with our artist, were the leaders of a new school of painting that overturned the rules of landscape painting. The painter left Germany in 1596 for Amsterdam, where he died in 1606, having brought a new vision of landscape painting to Holland.