Name: Antique Master Print-PASTORAL-ROADWAY-SHEPHERD-SHEEP-HORSE-Visscher-Berchem-1660
SKU: PCO-13004
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Antique Master Print-PASTORAL-ROADWAY-SHEPHERD-SHEEP-HORSE-Visscher-Berchem-1660

€475.00

‘CBERGHEM PINXIT. / J. VISCHER FECIT.’

– Pastoral landscape with a resting shepherd couple and flock of sheep beside a rocky outcrop. A young boy loads a packhorse while another child watches. Two horsemen ride in the distance on a winding road.

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Description

Medium: Engraving and etching on hand laid (verge) paper. Watermark: lettering.

Sheet size: 48.8 x 38.5 cm (19.21 x 15.16 inch). Image size: 45.7 x 36.2 cm. (17.99 x 14.25 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Light creasing, foxing and soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

PASTORAL, BERCHEM, VISSCHER, DUTCH GOLDEN AGE, SHEEP, SHEPHERDS, ENGRAVING, DE WIT, 17TH CENTURY LANDSCAPE | PCO-B9-36

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published by Frederick de Wit, Amsterdam, ca. 1660.

State: 1(2) proof before captions.

Reference: Hollstein 45.

Biography engraver: Johannes Visscher (c.1633-after 1692) was a Dutch engraver and mapmaker known for finely executed prints after masters like Berchem and for topographical works.

Biography artist: Nicolaes Berchem (1620-1683) was a prominent Dutch Golden Age painter and draughtsman known for idyllic Italianate landscapes with figures and livestock, influential in both Dutch and European art.