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Now the whole world with bulging eyes discusses the Vienna exhibition of Peter Bruegel and in all languages laments "no, well, explain to me, why Vienna? Ah than new York (Moscow, Melbourne and so on) worse?". And, of course, everyone immediately remembered all the stories that they had heard or knew that somehow relate to the big and little Dutch. Here is literally just that, in the night, my American friend tried me for the hundredth time to tell us how the restorers of the Museum of art and history at the University of Cambridge at the time preventive cleaning found on canvas by Hendrik van antonissena (which, incidentally, hung them on the wall of a modest 150 years), the image of a whale. Amazing how everyone liked this story and how think tell right here is a fresh joke. But never mind. The story is really great, but surely you all know her. It's just that this story about the whale found in the painting reminded me of a much more beautiful story about how the restorers suddenly cleaned the canvas — and there it is! Yes, Yes, Yes, there was something much funnier than any stupid whales.
First, a few words about who painted the picture in which it all was found — that is, about the artist — is Adrian van Ostade. He's quite famous. Now and before. How many in the Louvre or in the Dresden gallery of his works - I will not say, and in the Hermitage of sixteen. Ah figure, you should agree. Well. He was born in Haarlem and studied under the great Frans Hals. Wrote genre scenes and first while was almost as Hals — and then when it was nearly indistinguishable from Rembrandt. And always his signature style was not a smear or color, but caustic humor. For this he was loved, in General. And bought. And it is this, to be honest, allowed him to create a whole school, from which came a few fairly well-known among the small Dutch masters.
So this painting. It's called "Village market with a Church in the background", written in 1643. Since 1810, after it was purchased by the future king of great Britain George IV, it is part of the Royal collection, and since 1903 — it hangs in Buckingham Palace. Not so long ago, the restorers were preparing the canvas for the exhibition and then suddenly noticed that the shrub in the lower right corner is registered much later than the original. They grabbed shovels, put on a beautiful magnifying glass and become hard to clean. And as soon as all the tumors were removed, they were surprised to find that behind the Bush lurks a nice gentleman, satisfying, so to speak, his natural need. Who and when decided that in Royal palaces there is no place for shitting commoners — could not be established, but now the Royal personages will admire the creation of Hadrian in the form in which it was written by the author.
That's the story.
