Frederic de Moucheron (1633-1686)

The Property of THE TRUSTEES OF THE HOLKER ESTATES

Details

Frederic de Moucheron (1633-1686)

An Italianate Landscape with Drovers fording a River by a ruined classical Temple

signed 'Moucheron.f:'
26 x 31½in. (66 x 80.3cm.)

Provenance

Purchased by Sir William Lowther, 3rd Bt. (1727-1756; posthumous list of pictures in his London house, no. 6 or 24), and by inheritance at Holker through his cousin Lord George Augustus Cavendish (d.1794) and his nephew George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington (1754-1834).

Literature

G.F. Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London, 1857, p. 422 'A particularly good landscape'

Lot Essay

The staffage may be the work of Jan van der Bent (1650-1690).
The temple is a reminiscence of the Temple of Vespasian in Rome.
For the collecting activities of Sir William Lowther, see F. Russell, Thomas Patch, Sir William Lowther and the Holker Claude, Apollo, 102, 1975, pp. 115-9

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