Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem (1620-1683) [Cerchia di] - Paesaggio con rovine pastori e armenti

\Artist: Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem (1620-1683) [Cerchia di]
Technique: olio su tela, cm. 66 x 88\Signature: Not signed\Dimensions: 95_12_115_cm
NICOLAES PIETERSZ BERCHEM [Circle of] (Haarlem, 1620 - Amsterdam, 1683) Landscape with shepherds ruins and herds Oil on canvas, cm. 66 x 88 Size with frame, cm. 83 x 105 x 5 approx. NOTES: Not signed. Certificate of Guarantee and Lawful Origin. Work with gilded wood frame: This pastoral scene - inspired by the Italian landscape painters - of Flemish taste, shows pictorial suggestions to Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem (Haarlem, 1620 - Amsterdam, 1683) . Flemish painter working in the seventeenth century, he belongs to that group of Dutch painters who, starting from the sixteenth century, decided to stay in Italy fascinated by the splendid views and artistic wealth, to study and expand their culture. He stayed there from 1642 to 1653, drawing the themes of his landscapes from the Roman countryside, specializing in pastoral views. Rome is one of the favorite destinations of the Dutch, where they impose themselves in landscape painting, and conquer a primacy recognized by the Italians themselves. There is a reciprocal influence between what they are looking for in Italy (the plastic study of figures) and the particularities of Flemish painting, the refined technique, the meticulousness in showing real life. His Italian-style landscapes of imaginative rural environments, hills, mountains were embellished with figures of humans and animals, partially inspired by the works of other artists. The landscape art lines of Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem exerted a strong influence on subsequent generations of Dutch and French Rococo painters, such as Jean-Baptiste Pillement and Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Francais Boucher, Jean Pillement, Jean-Honoré Fragonard and the Englishman Thomas Gainsborough. As the work presented here shows, the result is a perfect osmosis between the Arcadian emotionality of Roman origin and the clear and airy atmosphere with the delicate chromatic and luminous harmony, typical characteristics of Nordic painting. The composition - under consideration - is animated by a group of animals, made up of cattle and goats, which dwell and enter a rural landscape - with ruins - and almost barren. The author also stops the image - on the right - of a figure: a shepherd sitting at the foot of a tree and illuminated by beams of sunlight, while observing his cattle; another figure, on the other hand, is represented in depth, near a fountain in the ruins of the landscape, also animated by a cow about to drink. The straw-yellow color tone, played on the burnished tones of the ground that blend into the horizon with the sky, offers strong chiaroscuro contrasts between the foreground and the background. The complexity of the composition, the skilful color scheme that gives the luminous effects, the brushstroke, free, fast and yet controlled and the material used, pasty but without the excesses visible in other works by the Flemish master, propose an insertion of the canvas in question in the corpus pictorial of a circle artist or follower, active in the 17th century, looking at the style, of the Dutch painter. See the rendering of the shrubs and the brushstrokes that outline the animals and figures, to understand a term of comparison with Nicolaes Berchem's Landscape with Shepherds and Herds Ruins. Regarding its state of conservation, the canvas is in a fairly conservative state. The pictorial surface is presented in patina. We can see - in Wood's light - an oxidized varnish, with small scattered restorations and some unveiling of the pictorial surface. In sunlight, a subtle crackle is visible compared to the time, and a few small drops in color. The frame should be replaced. The painting - of good pictorial quality - is very interesting both for its iconographic setting and for the drafting of the colors, synonymous with an artist of good interpretative quality. The measures of the canvas are cm. 66 x 88. The painting is sold with a gilded frame (dimensions approx. 83 x 105 x 5 cm) . ORIGIN: Coll. Private PUBLICATION: Unpublished; MYTHS AND THE TERRITORY in Sicily with a thousand cultures. UNPUBLISHED QUADRERIA general catalog of paintings from the collection of the “Myths and the territory” cycle, 2nd Ed. , Publisher Lab_04, Marsala, (in print, 2022) . We also guarantee accurate packaging with external wooden crate and bubble wrap / cardboard / internal polystyrene (packaging cost approximately € 120. 00) and tracked shipping (€ 130. 00 Italy) . For export, the work is subject to a request for a Certificate of Free Movement (European Community) or Certificate of Export (Extra-Community Transport) , at the export office (Superintendency of the territory) with the times and costs incurred ( € 300 / € 500, all included: shipping, packaging and particular exports) . The original documents (including catalog, will be sent separately after receiving payment from Catawiki) . The shipment may be delayed by a few days / week for logistical and administrative reasons.