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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Nicholaes Berchem worked in Haarlem. He was the son of the still-life painter Pieter Claesz, with whom he first studied, but he later adopted the surname of Berchem. He was a member of the Haarlem Guild of St Luke. A Dutch Italianate landscape painter, his work is close in style to that of Jan Both and Asselyn. He was one of the most prolific and best paid of the Italianate painters. Although there is no documentary evidence, it is likely that he travelled to Italy between 1650-1653. This painting, dated 1654, would have been painted immediately on his return to Holland. The mountains and the distant view are hallmarks of Berchem's landscapes of the 1650s, as is his use of a varied colour scheme with warmer and more saturated colours than his earlier work. The theme of peasants or shepherds crossing a ford was a frequent one in Dutch Italianate landscape painting, first used by the artist Pieter van Laer. The carefree pastoral figures have a certain aristocratic grace and reflect an idealisation of rural life. | Subjects: | cow figure; landscape; animal (horse goat) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Berchem, Nicolaes (Dutch painter, printmaker, and draftsman, 1620-1683) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8866... | Go to resource |
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