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© A Landscape with a Shepherd and his Flock, National Gallery, London

Object details

TitleA Landscape with a Shepherd and his Flock
Technique and supportOil on panel
Dimensions49.4 x 83.5
Inventory numberNG157

Collection and provenance

CollectionNational Gallery, London
Provenance
  • Perhaps P. P. Rubens (†) sale, Antwerp, 1640 (112);
  • perhaps coll. J. P. Happart, Antwerp († 1686);
  • perhaps coll. Everhard Jabach, Paris (1610–1695), and, by descent, coll. his widow and thence his grand‐daughter, Mme. Fourment, 1724;
  • coll. Dutartre, Paris, by 1787; Dutartre (†) sale, Paillet (Paris), 19 ff. March, 1804 (21) sold for 3,400 francs;
  • probably coll. the Hon. C. Long (later Lord Farnborough) by 1810; exh. by him at the B.I., 1815 (18);
  • Lord Farnborough Bequest, 1839.

Literature

SMITH 1830, II, p. 324, no. 1212; 1842, IX, p. 344, no. 379
ROOSES 1890, IV, pp. 378, 379, no. 1193
BURCKHARDT 1898, p. 317
ROOSES 1903, p. 203
ROOSES 1904, p. 575
ROSENBERG 1906, p. 397
DILLON 1909, pp. 175, n. 2, 185, 196, pl. CCCCLXII
OLDENBOURG 1921, fig. 16
KIESER 1926, p. 38
STERLING 1928, pp. 181, 187, 195, 196, 198
KIESER 1931, p. 291
Herrmann 1939, pp. 24, 25, 39, 40, 41, 58, 77, n. 91, 83, n. 136, fig. 8
CORNETTE 1939, pp. 737, 739, fig. 426
GLÜCK 1940, pp. 40, 42, 68, no. 31
HELD 1959, I, p. 146
MARTIN 1970, pp. 142-7, no. 157
ADLER 1982, pp. 181-2, no. 68, fig. 152
BROWN 1996, pp. 82, 86, 101, 102, 121, fig. 79
LIEDTKE 1997, pp. 55, 56
KIRBY 1999, p. 21
BROWN 2000, pp. 276, 277
KLEINERT 2014, pp. 29, 39, 47, 52f., 75, 77f., 105, 123f., 145, 160f., 169, pl. 29
BISACCA 2017, p. 105
DAVIS 2020, pp. 48, 67-8, 101n10, fig. 2.18
AVERY-QUASH AND DAVIS 2023, p. 77
KLEINERT 2023, pp. 112, 123

Panel reverse

Cradled or uncradledUncradled
Guild marksNone visible
Panel maker's markMichiel Vriendt