River Landscape with Figures
Flemish School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1600 - 1629
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
1041 x 1562 mm (41 x 61 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Flanders (Belgium from 1830)
Order this imageCollection
Lyme, Cheshire
NT 499956
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, River Landscape with Figures, Flemish School, early 17th century. River landscape, with village hamlet consisting of cottages, castle, and church amongst trees; a turbaned man dismounted from a mule, advancing towards a gypsy woman with swaddled sleeping baby possibly depicting a domestic/provincial looking 'A Flight into Egypt'.
Provenance
From the Estate of the late Sir Francis Legh. Accepted by HM Government in Lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Trust, 2009.
Credit line
Lyme Park, The Legh Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Flemish School, artist previously catalogued as attributed to Paul Bril (Antwerp 1554 - Rome 1626), artist