Herdsman with Sheep and Goats
Philipp Peter Roos, called Rosa da Tivoli (St Goar 1657 – Rome 1706)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1677 - 1706
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
508 x 648 mm (20 x 25 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire (Accredited Museum)
On show at
Not on show
NT 959496
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Herdsman with Sheep and Goats by Philipp Peter Roos, called 'Rosa da Tivoli' (St Goar 1657 – Rome 1706). A herdsman stands with sheep in the foreground in the centre and a horned cow on the left. A walled city can be seen on a rocky promontory in the left distance.
Provenance
Probably one of three landscapes by ‘Rosa de Tively’ (‘the subject of them are groups of cattle and a shepherd’), bought by Charles Winn in 1830, from the dealer, Dr Oxley, at a cost of £25 for all three’; purchased by the National Trust by private treaty sale from Lord St Oswald in 2010
Credit line
Nostell Priory, The St Oswald Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Philipp Peter Roos, called Rosa da Tivoli (St Goar 1657 – Rome 1706), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Dutch School, artist
References
Brockwell 1915 Maurice Walter Brockwell, Catalogue of the Pictures and Other Works of Art in the Collection of Lord St Oswald at Nostell Priory, London 1915, 369