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| Artist | After Berchem, Nicolaes (Dutch painter, printmaker, and draftsman, 1620-1683) |
| Title | Landscape with a Ruined Temple, Peasants, and Cattle |
| Date earliest | possibly 1650 |
| Date latest | possibly 1800 |
| Material | oil on canvas |
| Measurements | 55.2 x 64.1 cm |
| Inscription | front ll 'Berchem f' |
| Description | To left a ruined and overgrown temple stands high on a cliff edge. To right is the distant view of a mountain. In the foreground are two groups of animals; cattle, sheep, goats and a dog. There is a male figure with the group to the left and with the right side group are two women; one kneeling to feed the dog while the other stands, carrying a dish. |
| Subject | landscape; figure; animal (cow; goat) |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum |
| Current accession number | 569 |
| Previous accession number(s) | 36 (1893) |
| Acquisition details | Bequeathed by Mrs John Graham-Gilbert 1877. |
| Provenance | R. Artis collection, Ramsgate, 1834; J. Sandars collection, Taplow House, Maidenhead, 1857; Sandars sale, London, 15 May 1858, lot 31, bought by John Graham-Gilbert (1794-1866), £220.10s.; by descent to Mrs. John Graham-Gilbert. |
| Principal publications | Smith, J., A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, London, V, 1834, no. 158; Waagen, G., Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London, 1857, p. 291; Hofstede de Groot, C., 'Hollandsche Kunst in Schotland', Oud Holland, 11, 1893, p. 137, no. 36; 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. 118; Miles, H., Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Paintings in the Glasgow Art Gallery, Glasgow, 1961, I, p. 24, no. 569, II, p. 37, as 'probably an old copy of the signed canvas in the Sedelmeyer sale, Berlin, 16 November 1897, lot 3'. |
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| Rights status | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) |
| Author | Robert Wenley |
