A Shepherd and his Flock in a Landscape
Philipp Peter Roos, called Rosa da Tivoli (St Goar 1657 – Rome 1706)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1677 - 1706
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
991 x 1270 mm (39 x 50 in)
Place of origin
Italy
Order this imageCollection
Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire
NT 959469
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Shepherd and his Flock in a Landscape by Philipp Peter Roos, called 'Rosa da Tivoli' (St Goar 1657 – Rome 1706). A bearded shepherd is seated in a landscape with his flock of sheep, a goat and his dog. An Italianate walled town can be seen up on a hill in the distance behind him against a blue clouded sky.
Provenance
Probably one of three landscapes by ‘Rosa de Tively’ (‘the subject of them are groups of cattle and a shepherd’), bought by Charles Winn in 1830, from the dealer, Dr Oxley, at a cost of £25 for all three’;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
Philipp Peter Roos, called Rosa da Tivoli (St Goar 1657 – Rome 1706), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Dutch School, artist attributed to Johann Heinrich Roos (1631- Frankfurt 1685) , 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, 361