A young shepherd and shepherdess in a landscape with a flock

细节

Nicolaes Claesz. Berchem (Haarlem 1620-1683 Amsterdam)
A young shepherd and shepherdess in a landscape with a flock
with inscriptions 'f 6is' (verso) and 'N.Bercheim del.' and 'N 25-G' on the mount
black and white chalk, grey wash on blue paper, pen and brown ink framing lines
8¾ x 7 in. (222 x 176 mm.)

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拍品专文

Peter Schatborn kindly confirmed the attribution of the present drawing on the basis of a photograph noting that 'there are several arguments to regard this drawing by Berchem as an early work from the forties. The composition resembles the painting in New York, most likely dated 1644 (P. Schatborn, 'Figuurstudies van Nicolaes Berchem', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, 22 (1974), 1, p. 7, fig. 5). The technique, chalk on blue paper, is also the same as the preparatory drawing for the shepherd of the latter picture and Berchem's copy after figures painted by his teacher Claes Moyaert, probably the artist's earliest known drawing (P. Schatborn, op. cit., fig. 6). Other figure drawings Berchem made in the forties on blue paper show stylistic similarities with the present drawing, particularly the regular, oblique hatchings on the figure of the hersdman and the loose lines indicating forms in the background. The style with which the branches and leaves have been drawn are also characteristic for later drawings by Berchem'.
We are grateful to Peter Schatborn for his help in preparing this note.