GERRIT JANSZ. VAN BRONCKHORST | A classical landscape with a woman and shepherd sitting next to an obelisk and fountain 

Nikolaus Baranowsky, Vienna, by 1828 (according to Raupp, see Literature);

Sale, Vienna, 4 February 1828, lot 15 (according to Raupp, see Literature);

Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby Mak van Waay, 26 November 1984, lot 22;

Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 9 November 1998, lot 22, where acquired.

T. von Frimmel, Lexikon der Wiener Gemäldesammlungen, Munich 1914, vol. I, p. 87;

T. Döring, Studien zur Künstlerfamilie van Bronchorst, Alfter 1993, p. 242, cat. no. C12, reproduced p. 414;

H.-J. Raupp (ed.), Niederländische Malerei des. 17. Jahrhunderts der SØR Rusche-Sammlung, vol. 4, Historien und Allegorien, Münster/Hamburg/London 2010, pp. 80-83, cat. no. 7, reproduced in colour.

Gerrit Jansz. van Bronckhorst was the younger brother of Johannes Jansz. van Bronckhorst, sons of the artist Jan Gerritsz. van Bronckhorst. The brothers travelled to Rome together, where Johannes is documented between 1648 and 1650. This work was clearly inspired by, if not painted in, Italy, and Gerrit would go on to work in the style of Cornelis van Poelenburch, another Utrecht artist active in Rome.