An Italianate Landscape
Nicolaes Berchem the Elder (Haarlem 1620 – Amsterdam 1683)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1640 - 1683
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1143 x 1118 mm (45 x 44 in)
Place of origin
Holland
Order this imageCollection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1298192
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, An Italianate Landscape, by Nicolaes Berchem (Haarlem 1620 – Amsterdam 1683), indistinctly, bottom right, on a rock. A rocky hill, with a cascade, at the left, beneath which runs a path on which a woman on a mule and another figure are driving three goats; two tall trees in the centre; at the right, ruins on a small hill in the middle distance, and distant mountains.
Provenance
Bequeathed by Maurice Egerton, 4th Baron Egerton of Tatton (1874 - 1958) to the National Trust with the house, gardens and contents of Tatton Park
Makers and roles
Nicolaes Berchem the Elder (Haarlem 1620 – Amsterdam 1683), artist