Antique Master Print-ITALIAN LANDSCAPE-HORSE-RUIN-Berghem-c. 1750

Original antique master print showing an Italian landscape with people on mules or horses. On the left a ruin with a gate.

Made by an anonymous engraver after Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berghem.

Medium: Etching / engraving with hand colouring on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 41.5 x 32.5 cm (16.34 x 12.8 inch). Image size: 38 x 28 cm. (14.96 x 11.02 inch).

Condition: fair, given age. Paper slightly browned and wrinkly. Remnants from former matting on verso. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

ITALIAN LANDSCAPE-HORSE-RUIN | DPO-A2-003-31

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Source: unknown, to be determined.

Biography artist: Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berghem (1622-1683) was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, often populated with mythological and biblical figures.