A Village Street with a Performing Bear
Pieter van Bloemen (1657 - 1720)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1677 - 1720
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
457 x 629 mm (18 x 24 3/4 in)
Place of origin
Netherlands
Order this imageCollection
Plas Newydd, Anglesey
NT 1176330
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Village Street with a Performing Bear, by Pieter van Bloemen, called 'Il Stendardo' (1657-1720), seventeenth century. A street scene showing a performing bear surrounded by peasants and soldiers, one on a white horse seen from behind in the forground, centre right, and another on a dark horse on the right. A mother holding a baby stands next to the bear, also upright with a bridel and a stick in his right paw.
Provenance
Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Trust for display at Plas Newydd, 2016.
Makers and roles
Pieter van Bloemen (1657 - 1720) , artist Dutch School, artist