Landscape with Herdsman and Cattle
Nicolaes Berchem the Elder (Haarlem 1620 – Amsterdam 1683)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1645 - circa 1650
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
622 x 838 mm (24 1/2 x 33 in)
Place of origin
Holland
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872081
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Landscape with Herdsman and Cattle by Nicolaes Berchem the elder (Haarlem 1620 – Amsterdam 1683), circa 1645-50. A wooded hill at the left, sloping to a path at the right on which a herdsman is driving cattle, distant view, right.
Provenance
Accepted by HM Treasury in part payment of death-duties from the executors of Edmund Robert Parker, 4th Earl of Morley (1877-1951) and transferred to the National Trust in 1957
Credit line
Saltram, The Morley Collection (accepted in lieu of tax by HM Treasury, and transferred to The National Trust in 1957)
Makers and roles
Nicolaes Berchem the Elder (Haarlem 1620 – Amsterdam 1683), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Jan Both (Utrecht c.1618 – Utrecht 1652), artist