A Traveller in a Rocky Landscape, a River and Bridge beyond
Franco-Netherlandish School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1770 - 1780
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2590 x 735 mm
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 1246639.6
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Traveller in a Rocky Landscape, a River and Bridge beyond, Franco-Netherlandish School, circa 1770-1780. A narrow vertical panel, the lower quarter containing a landscape with a young man walking from right to left and looking back over his shoulder, upon which rests a staff with a basket of fruit tied to it. Behind him is a rocky landscape with two small figures to the left (one mounted, one with a dog), a fanciful circular building and part of a bridge with a man walking across it at the right hand edge of the canvas. The top part of the picture is taken up with sky.One of seven paintings set into panels in the wall.
Provenance
The bequest of Margaret (Anderson) McEwan, The Hon. Mrs Ronald - later Dame Margaret - Henry Fulke Greville, DBE (1863-1942) from probate records linked with the donation of the property to the National Trust in 1943. This item found on the record for Polesden Lacey pictures, drawings etc., the Small Drawing Room, page 128.
Credit line
Polesden Lacey, The McEwan Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Franco-Netherlandish School, artist