An Evening Landscape with a Castle Ruin
Herman van Swanevelt (Woerden c.1600 - Paris 1665)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1649 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oi on canvas
Measurements
953 x 1321 mm (37 1/2 x 52 in)
Place of origin
Paris
Order this imageCollection
Uppark House and Garden, West Sussex
NT 138272
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, An Evening Landscape by Herman van Swanevelt (Woerden c.1600 - Paris 1665), signed and dated on rocks bottom mid left: H. Swanevelt f Paris 1649. A wooden bridge, crossing a small ravine, leads to a group of ruined classical buildings to which a podere has been added. In the vicinity are figures and a flock of goats and two peasants are approaching the bridge by some trees at the left. An Italianate scene painted in Paris by a Dutchman, of the kind popular with the English in the eighteenth century.
Provenance
Probably acquired by Sir Matthew Fetherstonhaugh during his Grand Tour in 1749-51; accepted in lieu of tax on the death of Admiral the Hon. Sir Herbert Meade-Fetherstonhaugh (1875-1964) in 1965 and transferred to the National Trust by HM Treasury in September 1980
Credit line
Uppark, The Fetherstonhaugh Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
H Swanevelt F Paris 1649 (signed and dated on rocks at bottom)
Makers and roles
Herman van Swanevelt (Woerden c.1600 - Paris 1665) , artist
References
Waddingham 1960, M. Waddingham, 'Swaneveldt in Rome', Paragone, 12, 1960, p. 45, pl. 29b Salerno, Luigi Salerno, Pittori de Paesaggio del Seicento a Roma, 1977/78, vol. II, p. 422, pl. 65.15