A Mother with Two Children, Two Cows, Sheep, and an Ass, in a Clearing outside a Cottage
Dirck van Bergen (Haarlem c.1645 – Haarlem c.1690)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1675 - 1677
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
685 x 1670 mm (27 x 65 ¾ in)
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Ham House, Surrey
NT 1140020
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Mother with Two Children, Two Cows, Sheep, and an Ass, in a Clearing outside a Cottage, by Dirck van Bergen (Haarlem c.1645 – Haarlem c.1690), 1675/77. A rustic scene with a mother cradling her child on the ground outside a small cottage, a cow in the centre foreground, with a ram watching.
Provenance
In 1677 inventory and thence by descent until 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
Makers and roles
Dirck van Bergen (Haarlem c.1645 – Haarlem c.1690), artist