Nicolaes Berchem, follower of - Evening landscape with shepherds and their flock
Nicolaes Berchem, follower of
Evening landscape with shepherds and their flock
Oil on panel. 46 x 62.5 cm.
Inscribed lower centre: Berchem f.
In the golden light of the setting sun, herdsmen drive their sheep and oxen through the Campagna. Flanked by dogs, a peasant in a slouch hat rides his donkey in the center of the picture, and leads viewers into the southern landscape. Beside him, an ox looks out of the picture at us with a knowing gaze.
Between periods in Haarlem and Amsterdam, Nicolaes Berchem achieved great renown as a painter of Arcadian scenes and Italianate landscapes. Yet it remains unresolved to this day whether he ever traveled to Italy, as his fellow painters of the Dutch "Bentvueghel" did.
A comparable painting by Berchem can be found in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich (Italian Landscape in the Evening Light, c. 1670, inv. no. 266).
Provenance
Private collection, northern Germany.
Nicolaes Berchem, follower of
Evening landscape with shepherds and their flock
Oil on panel. 46 x 62.5 cm.
Inscribed lower centre: Berchem f.
In the golden light of the setting sun, herdsmen drive their sheep and oxen through the Campagna. Flanked by dogs, a peasant in a slouch hat rides his donkey in the center of the picture, and leads viewers into the southern landscape. Beside him, an ox looks out of the picture at us with a knowing gaze.
Between periods in Haarlem and Amsterdam, Nicolaes Berchem achieved great renown as a painter of Arcadian scenes and Italianate landscapes. Yet it remains unresolved to this day whether he ever traveled to Italy, as his fellow painters of the Dutch "Bentvueghel" did.
A comparable painting by Berchem can be found in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich (Italian Landscape in the Evening Light, c. 1670, inv. no. 266).
Provenance
Private collection, northern Germany.
