A Classical Landscape with a Traveller and Two Women Conversing and Three Goats Gambolling
Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
circa 1715 - circa 1725
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
724 x 597 mm (28 1/2 x 23 1/2 in)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 609003
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Classical Landscape with a Traveller and Two Women Conversing and Three Goats Gambolling by Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749), circa 1715/25. A coastal landscape with herdsmen resting and goats playing in the foreground. In the distance the buildings of a town can be discerned, with a temple and further away a colosseum.
Provenance
One of a set of six ovals pictures listed in the bill of lading in the papers from William Noel-Hill, 3rd Baron Berwick, PC, FSA (1773 - 1842), which is that of his final return from Naples to England in 1833, thence by descent; bequeathed to the National Trust by Edith Teresa Hulton, Lady Berwick (1890-1972).
Credit line
Attingham Park, The Berwick Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
On frame: 67 and 148 On stretcher covered by modern backing board: ATT/P/067 On reverse of frame (top): over library door X On reverse of frame (top): 5 On reverse of frame (bottom): ATT/P/067
Makers and roles
Jan Frans van Bloemen, called Orizzonte (Antwerp 1662 – Rome 1749) , artist
Exhibition history
In Trust for the Nation, National Gallery, London, 1995 - 1996, no.42d