Antique Master Print-SHEPHERD-BAGPIPES-GIRL-MILKING SHEEP-Visscher-Berchem-c.1700

A shepherd playing a bagpipe while a girl milks a sheep in a pastoral landscape with cows and sheep.

Made by Jan de Visscher after Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem.

Medium: Etching and engraving on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 35.8 x 27.5 cm (14.09 x 10.83 inch). Image size: 33.5 x 25.5 cm. (13.19 x 10.04 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing. Remains of tape on rear from attachment. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

SHEPHERD-PLAYING-BAGPIPES-WHILE-A-GIRL-MILKING-A-SHEEP | PCO-A15-38

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published by Gerard Valck (c.16451-1726) c. 1700.

Biography engraver: Jan de Visscher (born c.1636 – died 1692-1712), was a Dutch Golden Age engraver who became a painter in later life.

Biography artist: Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1620-1683) was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre pieces.