Landscape with Playing Satyr Children and Goats
Bartholomeus Breenbergh (Deventer 1598 - Amsterdam 1657)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1625
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
105 x 365 mm (4 ⅛ x 14 ⅜ in)
Place of origin
Holland
Order this imageCollection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 1139906
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Landscape with Playing Satyr Children and Goats by Bartholomeus Breenbergh (Deventer 1598 - Amsterdam 1657), faintly visible signature at lower right: B. Breenbergh, circa 1625. Satyr children playing with goats in a wooded area in the left foreground; satyr with goat in the centre; slumped man in the right foreground by a tree stump; rocky landscape with trees to the right; blue hills beyond.
Provenance
In 1683 valuation and thence by descent until acquired in 1948 by HM Government when Sir Lyonel, 4th Bt (1854 – 1952) and Sir Cecil Tollemache, 5th Bt (1886 – 1969) presented Ham House to the National Trust, and entrusted to the care of the Victoria & Albert Museum, until 1990, when returned to the care of the National Trust, and to which ownership was transferred in 2002
Credit line
Ham House, The Dysart Collection (purchased by HM Government in 1948 and transferred to the National Trust in 2002)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: on a label on the back of the panel, in ink: A Landskip by Crabish / Pret: 6£:0:0:; Verso: in a 19th-century hand on a label on the back of the panel: Landscape / Bartolomans Breenborch 1639 / from Daventer 1599. D.1659; on further labels on the back of the panel: 74; 8690; B2734. Verso: on a label, in pencil: 149
Makers and roles
Bartholomeus Breenbergh (Deventer 1598 - Amsterdam 1657), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Jan Asselyn (Dieppe c.1610 - Amsterdam 1652), artist
