After Nicolaes Berchem
Peasants with cattle on a rocky pass
with signature 'Berghem' (lower left)
oil on panel
12¼ x 10 in. (31.2 x 25.4 cm.)
Provenance
Prince Lobanov Rostovskii, by whom purchased in Florence, April 1836 (according to label on the reverse)
Purchased by the family of the present owner in the early 1920's.
Lot Essay
After the picture by Berchem in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (see Paintings from Europe and the Americas in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1994, p.33, illustrated).