ALEXANDER KEIRINCX | Landscape with a herder and his cows on the edge of a wood, with a mother and child feeding chickens beside a building

Keirincx was a Flemish painter whose early works were informed by the examples of artists such as Jan Brueghel the Elder and Gillis van Coninxloo. This painting probably dates to the 1620s, when Keirincx was working in Antwerp. The recession of the landscape achieved through alternating light and dark tones and the feathery foliage are particularly reminiscent of his Flemish forebears.

Joseph-Marie-François de Lassone, the first documented owner of this painting, was the personal physician to Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette.