Live auction - Lot 12
Italian landscape with herdsmen.
Subject: [Dutch school]
Manner of BERCHEM, Nicolaes
€ 1.500 / 2.000
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Lot description
Late 17th c
Oil on canvas, 66 x 81 cm, unsigned (small (1 cm) professionally repaired scratch at lower right).
In a gilt 19th-c. frame.
Italian landscape with peasants herding cows and oxes, crossing a river. Both subject matter and pictorial style are closely inspired by the works of the Dutch "Italianisant" painter Nicolaes Berchem (1620-1683).