An extensive Landscape with a Herdsman and Cattle watering in the foreground

Details

Anthonie van Borssom* (1629-1677)
An extensive Landscape with a Herdsman and Cattle watering in the foreground
signed 'Borssom f.'
oil on canvas
28 1/8 x 36¼in. (71.5 x 92cm.)

Provenance

Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Paris, before 1906.

Literature

A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexicon, 1906, I, p. 143.
W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, I, 1983, p. 429, under no. 199.
W. Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler, 1983, VI, p. 3696, no. 2213, illustrated in color.

Lot Essay

The present painting is a version, with several differences, of a painting by Borssom in the Städtische Kunst-und Gemäldesammlung, Bamberg (Sumowski, op. cit., I, fig. 199).

The painting is in the original Rothschild frame, bearing their insignia.