A Landscape with an Antique Tomb with a Ruined Urn, a Herdsboy and Shepherd Girl, Cattle, Sheep, and a Goat
Dirck van Bergen (Haarlem c.1645 – Haarlem c.1690)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1675 - 1677
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
914 x 1232 mm (36 x 48 ½ in)
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 1140174
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Landscape with an Antique Tomb with a Ruined Urn, a Herdsboy and Shepherd Girl, Cattle, Sheep, and a Goat, by Dirck van Bergen (Haarlem c.1645 – Haarlem c.1690). Pastoral landscape with cattle, sheep, a goat and a dog. A young woman sits on the plinth of the sculpted base of a broken urn on which is depicted a sculpted relief of Titian's Venus and Adonis. A large tree dominates the centre with trees and shrubs on either side with a distant view of a mountain and a cloudy sky.
Provenance
first cited in 'A true Inventary of his Grace the Duke of Lauderdale’s Goods in Ham-house', taken the 4th of August 1679: in the“The Green Drawing Roome. Three fixt Landskips”; ownership transferred to the National Trust, 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