Cattle and Sheep Watering
Jacob van der Does the Elder (1623 - 1673)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1650 - 1720
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
660 x 1105 mm
Place of origin
Holland
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 290231
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Cattle and Sheep Watering by Jacob van der Does (Amsterdam 1623 – Amsterdam 1673) or Simon van der Does (Amsterdam 1653 – Antwerp 1718). Cattle and sheep in the foreground, a figure on horseback behind. Beyond a landscape with hills, with some buildings in the centre of the scene. This archetypal Dutch landscape may be by Jacob Van der Does (1623-1673) or by his son Simon (1653-c.1720)
Provenance
Calke Abbey was given to the National Trust by Henry Harpur Crewe (1921-1991) and the contents, including this painting, were acquired with the aid of a grant from the National Heritage Fund, thanks to a special allocation of money from the Government, in 1984
Credit line
Calke Abbey, The Harpur Crewe Collection (acquired by the National Trust with the help of the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund in 1984)
Makers and roles
Jacob van der Does the Elder (1623 - 1673), artist Simon van der Does (1653/4 - c.1718), artist