Landscape with an Old Herdsman and Young Market Girl fording a Stream followed by Two Horse-and-Carts with Grooms
Dirck van Bergen (Haarlem c.1645 – Haarlem c.1690)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1675
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1378 x 1975 mm (54 ¼ x 77 ¾ in)
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Ham House, Surrey
NT 1139667
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Landscape with an Old Herdsman and Young Market Girl fording a Stream followed by Two Horse-and-Carts with Grooms by Dirck van den Bergen (Haarlem c.1645 – Haarlem c.1690), signed on a chest on the cart: 'DVB', 1675. Van den Bergen worked at Ham in the 1670s, supplying inset paintings of similar subjects for the Duke and Duchess of Lauderdale. This is the most ambitious picture by him in the house.
Provenance
Painted for Duke and Duchess Lauderdale and first mentioned in an inventory of 29 May 1677: on ?”The Great Stare Case.” One of the: “Nyne Pictures wt carv’d frames whereof two guilt”; 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
Marks and inscriptions
signed 'DVD'
Makers and roles
Dirck van Bergen (Haarlem c.1645 – Haarlem c.1690), artist