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| Artist | After Berchem, Nicolaes (Dutch painter, printmaker, and draftsman, 1620-1683) |
| Previous attributions | Previously attributed to French School Previously attributed to Roos family (German artists, active 17th-18th centuries) |
| Title | Figures and Cattle |
| Date earliest | possibly about 1700 |
| Date latest | possibly about 1850 |
| Material | oil on canvas |
| Measurements | 37.9 x 25.2 cm |
| Description | Nicolaes Berchem received his first training in the studio of his father, Pieter Claesz., a still life painter in Haarlem. Berchem is known to have visited Italy in the 1640s, and with Jan Both, became one of the most prolific, and admired, landscape painters in the Netherlands working in the Italianate style. Though this work is not believed to be by Berchem, it is painted from a known Berchem source. |
| Subject | everyday life; figure; animal (cattle, sheep, donkeys); landscape |
| Collection | Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead |
| Current accession number | TWCMS:B8415 |
| Previous accession number(s) | SAG 266 |
| Acquisition details | Bequeathed by J. A. D. Shipley, 1909. |
| Principal publications | Catalogue of the Shipley Collection, 1917, no. 266 attributed to T. de Vogel; Catalogue of the Shipley Collection, 1921, no. 266 attributed to T. de Vogel; Catalogue of the Shipley Collection, 1951, no. 266 attributed to T. de Vogel. |
| Notes | This work is a pair with B8413. The original attribution to T. de Vogel has since been disputed. In 1974, Christie's attributed the work to style of Roos, though French eighteenth century, and de Vogel after Berchem, had also been suggested. It is now recognised to be after a much copied original by Berchem. The work is freely, almost loosely painted, on relatively coarse canvas. |
| Rights status | The Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead (Tyne and Wear Museums) |
| Author | Elizabeth van der Beugel |
