Landscape with Fishermen and Women and a City in the distance
Franco-Netherlandish School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1770 - 1780
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
2590 x 2490 mm
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 1246640
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Landscape with Fishermen and Women and a City in the distance, Franco-Netherlandish School, circa 1770-1780. A landscape with men and women fishing in the foreground; to the right a peasant with a stick drives a cow, a sheep, a goat and an animal halfway between sheep and goat. To the left of the canvas is a rocky hill with a castle on the top; in the background is a ship on water, and distant hills; centre and right a town and a large building in a walled park. The top part of the painting is taken up with sky and a tall tree at the right hand edge of the canvas. Painting set into panel in the wall.
Provenance
Bequeathed by Margaret McEwan, The Hon. Mrs Ronald Greville (1863-1942) with Polesden Lacey, to the National Trust, in memory of her father, William McEwan (1827-1913)
Credit line
Polesden Lacey, The McEwan Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Franco-Netherlandish School, artist
