Lot 64
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Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem Haarlem 1620 - 1683 Amsterdam

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Description

  • Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem
  • a shepherd playing the flute, crossing a ford with his flock
  • signed in black chalk, lower right: Berghem f.
  • black chalk and grey wash

Provenance

Constantijn Sennepart;
by whom sold in 1695 for 5 Guilders to Isaac Feitama;
by descent to Sybrand Feitama;
by descent to D. Feitama;
by whom sold, Amsterdam, 16th October 1758, Kunstboek O no. 3, to van Dyk;
with P. & D. Colnaghi, London, circa 1950

Catalogue Note

This composition was engraved, in reverse, by Johannes van Groensveld (1660-1728), as the frontispiece to a set of six landscape prints after Berchem (Hollstein, vol.I, p. 272, after Berchem, no. 131).