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FREDERIK DE MOUCHERON, A SOUTHERN LANDSCAPE WITH HUNTING SCENES A SOUTHERN LANDSCAPE WITH HUNTING SCENES Signed lower centre: Moucheron ft Frederic de Moucheron was born into a Huguenot family in Emden. His parents later moved to Amsterdam, where, according to Houbraken, Moucheron was taught under Jan Asselijn. The artist is known to have stayed in Paris and Lyon around 1656, after which he primarily resided in Amsterdam. It is not known for sure whether the de Moucheron travelled to Italy, but he is nonetheless known as one of the Italianate painters. These were northern, mainly Dutch, painters who chose Italian landscapes as their main motifs. Moucheron was among the second generation of these Italianate painters, to which his teacher Asselijn, Jan Both and Nicolaes Berchem also belonged. These artists were brought together by their fascination with the effects of light peculiar to Italy and the depiction of Mediterranean landscapes bathed in bright sunlight. Moucheron mainly concentrated on panoramic, diverse landscapes and the detailed depiction of flickering silver leaves. In the present work, the observer sees a close up of a path leading into a patch of woodland to the right. The left half of the painting opens onto a view of a jagged rock formation in the mid ground and a distant mountain range in the background. The landscape is enlivened by several scenes of a deer hunt.