Lot Essay
In an Italian late 18th century carved and gilded frame with imbricated leaf-and-berry moulding running from acanthus leaf corners to flowerhead centres, ropetwist innner edge and beaded sight edge.
Dr. Mina Gregori, followed by Francesco Frangi and Elisabetta Strocchi, dates the present picture to the 1760s, placing it in a group
of late works on pastoral themes which reflect the influence of Cornelis Bloemaert's set of sixteen pastoral prints after Abraham Bloemaert (see Gregori, op. cit., p.60, figs.72-7), relating it in particular to the eighth in the series, which also shows a peasant girl holding a distaff (see, for instance, A. McNeil Kettering, The Dutch Arcadia. Pastoral Art and its Audience in the Golden Age, 1983, fig.109). She also points out that a 'Peasant Woman and Child with a Cow' in a Brescian private collection (Gregori, op. cit., no.250, illustrated in colour pp.404-6) would seem to have originally formed a pendant to the present painting
Dr. Mina Gregori, followed by Francesco Frangi and Elisabetta Strocchi, dates the present picture to the 1760s, placing it in a group
of late works on pastoral themes which reflect the influence of Cornelis Bloemaert's set of sixteen pastoral prints after Abraham Bloemaert (see Gregori, op. cit., p.60, figs.72-7), relating it in particular to the eighth in the series, which also shows a peasant girl holding a distaff (see, for instance, A. McNeil Kettering, The Dutch Arcadia. Pastoral Art and its Audience in the Golden Age, 1983, fig.109). She also points out that a 'Peasant Woman and Child with a Cow' in a Brescian private collection (Gregori, op. cit., no.250, illustrated in colour pp.404-6) would seem to have originally formed a pendant to the present painting