Jan van Bijlert (1603-1671)

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Jan van Bijlert (1603-1671)

A shepherd, half length in profile, wearing a feathered cap and holding a houlette

signed upper left Jv(linked)Bijlert.fc:
oil on canvas
83 x 64.5 cm

Provenance

P.A. van Oosterwijk Bruyn, Maartensdijk

Literature

A. von Schneider, Caravaggio und die Niederländer, 1933, p. 132
G.J. Hoogewerff, Jan van Bijlert, Schilder van Utrecht (1598-1671), Oud Holland, LXXX, 1965, p. 28, no. 66

Lot Essay

To be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work being prepared by Paul Huys Janssen, who has kindly suggested a dating towards 1625/1630

See colour illustration

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