Landscape with figures and animals near a waterfall
Drawing
ca.1670 (made)
ca.1670 (made)
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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
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Title | Landscape 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. |
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Production type | Unique |
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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. |
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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 |
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Accession number | D.933-1900 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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