An Evening Landscape with a Castle Ruin
Herman van Swanevelt (Woerden c.1600 - Paris 1665)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1649 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oi on canvas
Measurements
953 x 1321 mm (37 1/2 x 52 in)
Place of origin
Paris
Order this imageCollection
Uppark House and Garden, West Sussex (Accredited Museum)
NT 138272
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, An Evening Landscape by Herman van Swanevelt (Woerden c.1600 - Paris 1665), signed and dated on rocks bottom mid left: H. Swanevelt f Paris 1649. A wooden bridge, crossing a small ravine, leads to a group of ruined classical buildings to which a podere has been added. In the vicinity are figures and a flock of goats and two peasants are approaching the bridge by some trees at the left. An Italianate scene painted in Paris by a Dutchman, of the kind popular with the English in the eighteenth century.
Provenance
Probably acquired by Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh during his Grand Tour in 1749-51; accepted in lieu of tax on the death of Admiral the Hon. Sir Herbert Meade-Fetherstonhaugh (1875-1964) in 1965 and transferred to the National Trust by HM Treasury in September 1980
Credit line
Uppark, The Fetherstonhaugh Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
H Swanevelt F Paris 1649 (signed and dated on rocks at bottom)
Makers and roles
Herman van Swanevelt (Woerden c.1600 - Paris 1665) , artist
References
Waddingham 1960, M. Waddingham, 'Swaneveldt in Rome', Paragone, 12, 1960, p. 45, pl. 29b Salerno, Luigi Salerno, Pittori de Paesaggio del Seicento a Roma, 1977/78, vol. II, p. 422, pl. 65.15