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Artist:Nicolaes Berchem (Dutch, Haarlem 1621/22–1683 Amsterdam)
Date:1644
Medium:Oil on wood
Dimensions:17 x 13 1/2 in. (43.2 x 34.3 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Purchase, 1871
Accession Number:71.125
Catalogue Entry
This is one of the earliest known works by Berchem, and is generally consistent with Haarlem landscape painting of the 1640s. Though the painting has awkward passages, especially the female figure and the cow, the trees and sky are fluidly painted. Water may have been suggested in the lower right corner of the picture, but as in other areas of the ground this passage is now too thin to read closely.
The figure of the standing man is based on a drawing by Berchem of about 1643–44 (Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam; Schatborn 1974, fig. 1), though the pose has been slightly modified in the right leg.
[2010; adapted from Liedtke 2007]
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