A Pastoral Scene
Balthazar Paul Ommeganck (Antwerp 1755 - Antwerp 1826)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1789 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2959 x 4013 mm (116 1/2 x 158 in)
Place of origin
Flanders (Belgium from 1830)
Order this imageCollection
Plas Newydd, Anglesey
NT 1175955
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Pastoral Scene by Balthazar Paul Ommeganck (Antwerp 1755 - Antwerp 1826), signed, on trough BP.Ommeganck ft. and dated 1789. A large horizontal landscape with peasants, sheep, goats and cattle against a fountain, a peasant and with mules in the middle distance with cattle in the river beyond and a town in the far distant background to the left.
Provenance
Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Trust for display at Plas Newydd, 2016.
Marks and inscriptions
1789 (signed and dated)
Makers and roles
Balthazar Paul Ommeganck (Antwerp 1755 - Antwerp 1826), artist