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Landscape with figures and animals near a waterfall

Drawing
ca.1670 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

In a wooded landscape, a herder stands at the edge of a pool of water, and talking to a reclining shepherdess; they are surrounded by four cattle and two goats.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleLandscape with figures and animals near a waterfall (published title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and black ink and black chalk, with grey wash; framing line in black ink.
Brief description
Drawing, Landscape with figures and animals near a waterfall, Berchem, Nicolaes (Pietersz.), Dutch School, c.1670
Physical description
In a wooded landscape, a herder stands at the edge of a pool of water, and talking to a reclining shepherdess; they are surrounded by four cattle and two goats.
Dimensions
  • Height: 617 mm
  • Width: 517 mm
Style
Production typeUnique
Marks and inscriptions
  • Signed at lower centre right, in black ink, NB(in ligature)erchem ft.
Gallery label
In a wooded clearing, a herder and a shepherdess rest by a pool with their cattle and goats. The scene is characteristic of Nicolaes Berchem’s style. He was a prominent artist of the second generation of ‘Dutch Italianates’, a group of artists active in Rome between the 1630s and the 1650s.
Object history
Possibly the painter Arnoldus Stevens (d. 1795 or before), his sale, Amsterdam, van der Schley … IJver, 7 December 1795, Album A, lot 1: ‘Een bergagtig Landschap, met een Rivier doorsneden, ryk gestoffeerd met Huislieden en hun Vee, verders Woningen, Watervallen, en Geboomten; meesterlyk fiks met zwart kryt en oostind. inkt behandeld, door N. Berchem’; Miss Emily Dalton (1816/17–1900), Leicester, by whom bequeathed to the museum (NAL dry stamp on recto and Dalton Bequest purple ink stamp on verso of lining; neither in Lugt), 1900.
Place depicted
Bibliographic reference
Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, vol. I, Cat. no. 15, illus, p. 16
Collection
Accession number
D.933-1900

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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