Willem Romeyn (1624-1694)

Shepherds with goats, sheep and cattle resting on a river bank by a grotto in an Italianate landscape

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Willem Romeyn (1624-1694)
Shepherds with goats, sheep and cattle resting on a river bank by a grotto in an Italianate landscape
signed (strengthened) lower left W Romeyn (WR linked)
oil on canvas
68 x 77.4 cm

Provenance

with P. de Boer, Amsterdam
with K.J. Müllenmeister, Solingen, from whom bought by the present owner

Literature

K.J. Müllenmeister, Meer und Land im Licht des 17. Jahrhunderts, 1981, III, p. 34, no. 325, with ill.

Lot Essay

The present lot is to be dated to circa 1660-1670, when the artist gradually came under the influence of Karel Dujardin. See Meesterlijk Vee, exhibition catalogue, Dordrecht/Leeuwarden 1988-1989, p. 201.
The composition is based on Nicolaes Berchem's picture of 1655 in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Brunswick, inv. no. 793 (P. Sutton, Masters of 17th Century Landscape Painting, exhibition catalogue 1987, no. 8, plate 60).

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