Landscape with Cattle, Sheep, a Horse, a Goat and a Courting Couple of Rustics
Dirck van Bergen (Haarlem c.1645 – Haarlem c.1690)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1675 - 1677
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
660 x 1613 mm (26 x 63 ½ in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 1140160
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Landscape with Cattle, Sheep, a Horse, a Goat and a Courting Couple of Rustics, by Dirck van Bergen (Haarlem c.1645 – Haarlem c.1690). Rustic landscape showing sheep sitting on the ground in the bottom right, with a female tending a seated male in the bottom left. A bullock grazes centre, with a second in the distance on the left.
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
Credit line
Ham House, The Dysart Collection (purchased by HM Government in 1948 and transferred to the National Trust in 2002)
Makers and roles
Dirck van Bergen (Haarlem c.1645 – Haarlem c.1690), artist