The view is probably a capriccio of various of the abbeys set among ponds in the rolling woodland to the south and east of Brussels.
Landscape Painting Archive
Denis van Alsloot was a Flemish painter who specialized in pageant and procession scenes.
Cephalus and Procris were in Greek mythology a young couple, newly married, whose love was destined to end in tragedy. The figures in the painting are probably by another hand most likely to be Alsloot’s principle collaborator, Henderick de Clerck.
Allegrain followed Poussin by painting heroic landscapes.




















