DUTCH SCHOOL 17thC - ANIMATED ITALIANATE LANDSCAPE CIRCLE BERCHEM - INK DRAWING
Item History & Price
For sale is this superb, large size Dutch old master drawing, coming from a collection near Basel, Switzerland (I met the man in Utrecht recently, where he presented me two Dutch drawings).
The drawing, executed in pen, ink and grey wash on laid paper, depicts an Italian landscape at nightfall, showing a group of shepperds preparing themself and their flock for the night. A mother is sitting down, holding her sleeping child on her knees. Another woman is looking at her, ...while the man central is watching the mother. Some animals are allready at rest, some others are still grazing.
Authorship : the drawing is from the Dutch School, attributed to a follower of Nicolaes Berchem.
NICOLAES CLAESZ. BERCHEM (1620 Haarlem - 1683 Amsterdam) : Under the direction of his father Pieter Claesz., Nicolaes Berchem began his artistic career in Haarlem at the age of fourteen. He acquired the surname "Berchem" while a young pupil in the studio of Jan van Goyen. After studying with Cornelis van Poelenburgh and Jan van Goyen, well-known Dutch landscape painters, Berchem adopted a classicizing manner and joined the second generation of Dutch Italianates. These painters' depictions of the Italian countryside bathed in warm southern light were in great demand in Holland. Although Dutch consumers admired his paintings for their evocative Italian settings, scholars are uncertain whether Berchem ever actually visited Italy. He may have simply based his paintings on drawings by artists who did visit Italy. At the age of fifty-seven, he settled in Amsterdam, where he continued to paint Italianate landscapes until his death. He created over eight hundred paintings in his lifetime.
Period : ca. 1690-1700.
Size : 30, 2x41, 8cm !
Provenance : collection Bauer, Basel (Switzerland).
Condition : Good. Some scattered dirt throughout. Laid down on a paper support. Support damaged (bottom corners : fragments of paper missing). Paper slightly damaged left and right. Unframed.
Shipping : flat shippingrate 18$. Shipped as International Registered Mail (with trackingn°). Combined shipping available.
The drawing, executed in pen, ink and grey wash on laid paper, depicts an Italian landscape at nightfall, showing a group of shepperds preparing themself and their flock for the night. A mother is sitting down, holding her sleeping child on her knees. Another woman is looking at her, ...while the man central is watching the mother. Some animals are allready at rest, some others are still grazing.
Authorship : the drawing is from the Dutch School, attributed to a follower of Nicolaes Berchem.
NICOLAES CLAESZ. BERCHEM (1620 Haarlem - 1683 Amsterdam) : Under the direction of his father Pieter Claesz., Nicolaes Berchem began his artistic career in Haarlem at the age of fourteen. He acquired the surname "Berchem" while a young pupil in the studio of Jan van Goyen. After studying with Cornelis van Poelenburgh and Jan van Goyen, well-known Dutch landscape painters, Berchem adopted a classicizing manner and joined the second generation of Dutch Italianates. These painters' depictions of the Italian countryside bathed in warm southern light were in great demand in Holland. Although Dutch consumers admired his paintings for their evocative Italian settings, scholars are uncertain whether Berchem ever actually visited Italy. He may have simply based his paintings on drawings by artists who did visit Italy. At the age of fifty-seven, he settled in Amsterdam, where he continued to paint Italianate landscapes until his death. He created over eight hundred paintings in his lifetime.
Period : ca. 1690-1700.
Size : 30, 2x41, 8cm !
Provenance : collection Bauer, Basel (Switzerland).
Condition : Good. Some scattered dirt throughout. Laid down on a paper support. Support damaged (bottom corners : fragments of paper missing). Paper slightly damaged left and right. Unframed.
Shipping : flat shippingrate 18$. Shipped as International Registered Mail (with trackingn°). Combined shipping available.
