A wooded river landscape with a peasant on horseback, a shepherd with his flock and other peasants fishing outside a village

Details

Pieter Jansz. van Asch (Delft 1603-1678)
A wooded river landscape with a peasant on horseback, a shepherd with his flock and other peasants fishing outside a village
signed 'P. vAs.F' (lower right)
oil on panel
19 x 26 1/8 in. (48.3 x 66.3 cm.)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 6 November 1970, lot 135.

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Lot Essay

Pieter van Asch joined the Delft painters' guild in 1623. Greatly influenced in his early years by Willem van den Bundel (1577-1655), whose pastoral idylls were very popular at the time, Van Asch's style developed eclectically, showing at various times the influence of, amongst others, Salomon Ruysdael, Jan Wijnants and Jan Hackaert.

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