Antique Master Print-TRAVELERS-COUPLE-LANDSCAPE-SHEPARD-Danckerts-Berchem-c.1660

This print shows a view on a peasant and wife each riding on a donkey, meeting a farmer with two cows and a man walking with his dog.

Made by Dancker Danckerts after Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem.

Medium: Etching / engraving on handlaid / verge paper. Watermark: Coat of arms.

Sheet size: 28.1 x 19.5 cm (11.06 x 7.68 inch). Image size: 27.9 x 18.8 cm. (10.98 x 7.4 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Smudges on reverse. Slightly brownish. Tape in upper corners.. Three brown spot on reverse. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

ANIMALS-DONKEY-MAN-PEASANT-WIFE-DOG-LANDSCAPE-ROAD-COW | RBOS-A11-01

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This attractive print was published ca 1660.

Reference: Nicolaes Berchem: In het licht van Itali?, Frans Halsends, 2006, p. 127.Hollstein 13, 3nd and final state.

Provenance: With pen on reverse JC or H.

Biography engraver: Dancker Danckerts (1634-1666), Dutch engraver and publisher from Amsterdam. Made etching after Berchem after 1655. Brother of Justus Danckerts.

Biography artist: Nicolaas Pietersz. Berchem, (Haarlem, 1622 – Amsterdam, 18 februari 1683) was a Dutch painter, draftsman, and etcher. He is best known for his pastoral Mediterranean landscapes.