A Wooded Landscape with Peasants and Herdsfolk by a Monument
Flemish School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1700
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
495 x 737 mm (19 1/2 x 29 in)
Place of origin
Flanders (Belgium from 1830)
Order this imageCollection
Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 732189
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Wooded Landscape with Peasants and Herdsfolk by a Monument, Flemish School, circa 1700. A circular path extends out from a wood. A shepherd sits next to a stone monument on the left and a female figure stands on the path on the right. Cattle and sheep graze in the foreground.
Provenance
Probably acquired by Henry Hoare II (1705-85); given to the National Trust along with the house, its grounds, and the rest of contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946.
Credit line
Stourhead, The Hoare Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: . Inscribed in pencil on back of stretcher: Bottom Picture on front wall / Right Handside of Large Window
Makers and roles
Flemish School, artist Dutch School