Oil On Canvas - Follower Nicolas Berghem - Period: XIXth

Very beautiful oil on canvas, made by a follower of Nicolas Berghem, representing a magnificent scene of pastoral life in the Italian countryside where a shepherdess, her little dog under her arm, makes a stop with her flock at the edge of a pond, allowing everyone to quench their thirst and rest before resuming the path of the annual transhumance.

Period: XIXth
Dimensions: Height: 57cm x Width: 65.5cm

Nicolas Berchem or "Berghem" is a Dutch painter and engraver, born in Haarlem towards the end of September 1628, died in Amsterdam on February 18, 1683.

Like Jan Both and Jan Asselyn Berchem, he is one of the so-called second-generation Dutch Italianate landscape painters.

Above all, he produced phantasmagorical landscapes, filled with characters and animals with distinguished presence, and lit by a southern autumnal evening light.

Reproducing leaves, animals and figures with striking accuracy, he assembled them into a perfect whole.

Sometimes, mythological or biblical scenes are integrated into his decorations and some of his paintings are very similar to genre painting.

We find in Berchem's paintings the taste of Jan Both for slender trees whose top comes out of the frame and even more of those of Asselyn whose Mediterranean light he adopts, as well as the figures of shepherds and herds

Very talented artist , tirelessly active, Nicolas Berchem has produced a lot.

Most of his compositions represent scenes from pastoral life.

Its Italian landscapes are also remarkable for the brilliance and the limpidity of the light and for the safety of the execution.

The museums of Dresden, that of Amsterdam, the Hermitage and the Louvre have their best works.