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Nicolaes Berchem (1620-1683)

Herdsmen in an Italianate Landscape with a Tower

signed and dated 'Berghem. f 1654'; black chalk, grey wash, brown ink framing lines
146 x 226 mm.
Engraved
Etched, in reverse, by Johannes Visscher (Hollstein I, no. 347, Hollstein XLI, no. 94)

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A version signed and dated 1656 in the same technique and of almost identical size is in the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (E. Bock and J. Rosenberg, Die Niederländischen Meister, Berlin, 1930, no. 330, pl. 64).
A related painting by Berchem dated 1655, which may have been based on the present drawing, is in the British Royal Collection, C. White, Pictures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London, 1982, no. 20, pl. 15

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