ID 1344869
Lot 145 | NICOLAES BERCHEM (HAARLEM 1621/2-1683 AMSTERDAM)
Estimate value
£ 25 000 – 35 000
An Italianate landscape with a shepherdess on a mule and a shepherd, herding cattle, sheep, donkeys and dogs on a mountain track next to ruins
signed 'Berchem' (lower left, partially strengthened)
oil on panel
16 1/8 x 21 ¼ in. (41 x 53.9 cm.)
Provenance
Sir Frederick [Lucas] Cook, 2nd Bt. (1844-1920), Doughty House, Richmond, by 1914, and by descent to his son,
Sir Herbert [Frederick] Cook, 3rd Bt. (1868-1939), Doughty House, Richmond, and by descent to his son,
Sir Francis [Ferdinand Maurice] Cook, 4th Bt. (1907-1978); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 25 June 1958, lot 73, where acquired by the following,
with Galerie Cramer, The Hague.
Anonymous sale [The Property of a Gentleman]; Christie's, London, 29 March 1974, lot 70.
with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, where acquired in 1980 by the father of the present owners.
Literature
J.O. Kronig, A Catalogue of the Paintings at Doughty House Richmond & Elsewhere in the Collection of Sir Frederick Cook Bt., II, London, 1914, p. 8, no. 211.
C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII Jahrhunderts, IX, Esslingen and London, 1926, p. 196, no. 510.
M. W. Brockwell, ed., Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House Richmond Surrey in the Collection of Sir Herbert Cook, Bart., London, 1932, p. 46, no. 211 (144).
J. Hayes, 'British Patrons and Landscape Painting', Apollo, LXXXII, no. 41, July 1965, pp. 41-2, fig. 5.
E. Danziger and J. Somerville, 'Concordance of Cook Collection paintings', no. 211, online supplement to E. Danziger, 'The Cook collection, its founder and its inheritors', The Burlington Magazine, CXLVI, no. 1216, July 2004, pp. 444-58.
| Artist: | Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem (1620 - 1683) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem (1620 - 1683) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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