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Description: | This seventeenth-century work depicts a family on the move across a windy and rough-looking landscape. The mother sits with her baby on a mule, which forms part of a train that the husband is guiding across a stream. Two boys, presumably the couple's older children, follow on behind. Genre scenes such as these afforded pleasant country scenes, and a good market existed for them, as patrons in both country and city would have been interested in displaying this kind of work on their walls. Dirk van Bergen, to whom this painting is attributed, is known for his production of paintings of similar subjects. | Subjects: | everyday life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Bergen, Dirk van (Dutch painter and draftsman, ca. 1645 - ca. 1690) Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8545... | Go to resource |
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