Wooded Landscape with Peasants Music-making and Dancing
Flemish School
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 - 1799
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
584 x 851 mm (23 x 33½ in)
Place of origin
Flanders
Order this imageCollection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 959448
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Wooded Landscape with Peasants Music-making and Dancing, Flemish School, 18th century. A landscape with figures dancing in a group, a chateau behind and ornamental lake to the left.
Provenance
Probably acquired by Charles Winn in the 19th Century as a work by the Dutch artist, Herman Swanevelt (1600 - 1655) (in the sale at Manchester on 1st October 1857, no. 27); and thence by descent until purchased by the National Trust by private treaty sale from Lord St Oswald in 2010
Credit line
Nostell Priory, The St Oswald Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Flemish School, artist previously catalogued as attributed to Jacques de Lajoue II (Paris 1687 - Paris 1761) , artist previously catalogued as attributed to Herman van Swanevelt (Woerden c.1600 - Paris 1665) , artist previously catalogued as attributed to Dutch School, artist
References
Brockwell 1915 Maurice Walter Brockwell, Catalogue of the Pictures and Other Works of Art in the Collection of Lord St Oswald at Nostell Priory, London 1915, cat. no. 53