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| Artist | After Berchem, Nicolaes (Dutch painter, printmaker, and draftsman, 1620-1683) |
| Title | Landscape with Cattle and Figures on a Mountain Path |
| Date earliest | possibly about 1642 |
| Date latest | possibly 1833 |
| Material | oil on canvas |
| Measurements | 51.1 x 65.7 cm |
| Inscription | front 'Berchem' |
| Description | A well demarcated path leads from foreground to middle distance. To right there are rocky cliffs and two spindly trees growing from left of the path. On the path are a figure on horseback and a companion on foot. They are driving two cattle ahead of the as they process away from the viewer. Behind them walks another figure with a dog leading two more cattle. To left and at a lower level of the same path is one more figure with two cows. |
| Subject | landscape; figure; animal (cow; dog) |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum |
| Current accession number | 41 |
| Previous accession number(s) | 66 (1855); 32 (1893) |
| Acquisition details | Bequeathed by Archibald McLellan 1854. |
| Provenance | Possibly J. Clerk of Eldin sale, Edinburgh, 15 March 1833, lot 94. |
| Principal publications | McLellan Catalogue, Glasgow, 1855, p. 6, no. 66, as by Berchem; Hofstede de Groot, C., 'Hollandsche Kunst in Schotland', Oud Holland, 11, 1893, p. 137, no. 32, as by Berchem; Hofstede de Groot, C., A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, IX, Esslingen, 1926, Berchem, no. 482, as by Berchem; Miles, H., Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Paintings in the Glasgow Art Gallery, Glasgow, 1961, I, p. 24, no. 41, as 'a fairly late copy of a picture by Berchem in the Ascott Collection'. |
| Notes | Inscribed on stretcher (chalk) 'Struthers'. |
| Rights status | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) |
| Author | Robert Wenley |
