Italian Landscape with Shepherd and Shepherdess

Italian Landscape with Shepherd and Shepherdess

Decoration for a Room in the House of Jacob de Flines in Amsterdam

SK-A-4213

Italiaans landschap met op de voorgrond een minnekozend herderspaar en hoge bomen. Rechts op de achtergrond meer stoeiende herders en herderinnen bij een obelisk. Onderdeel van een reeks van vier schilderingen (SK-A-4213/4216) voor het huis van Jacob de Flines aan de Herengracht te Amsterdam.

• painter: Gerard de Lairesse
• painter: Johannes Glauber

c. 1687

oil on canvas

• height 280 cm x width 212 cm
• depth 7.3 cm
• weight 51 kg

Public domain

? Commissioned, with three other paintings, by Jacob de Flines (1657-1714), Herengracht 132, Amsterdam, c. 1683;{Note RMA; Van Eeghen et al. 1976, p. 441.} his daughter, Elisabeth de Flines, with the house at Herengracht 132, Amsterdam; her children and granddaughter, with the house at Herengracht 132, Amsterdam; from whom, fl. 36,300, with the house at Herengracht 132, Amsterdam to Joan Scherenbergh (1680-1753); his daughter, Maria Scherenbergh (1709-63), with the house at Herengracht 132, Amsterdam; her son, Joan Frederik d'Orville (1732-1809), with the house at Herengracht 132, Amsterdam; purchased by Robert Daniel Crommelin (1741-1808), with the house at Herengracht 132, Amsterdam; his son, Claude Crommelin (1769-1824), with the house at Herengracht 132, Amsterdam; his son, Claude Daniel Crommelin (1795-1860), with the house at Herengracht 132, Amsterdam; his son, Claude August Crommelin (1840-74),with the house at Herengracht 132, Amsterdam; his stepsister, Elisabeth Maria Weymar (?-1902), and her husband, Julius Hendrik Tutein Nolthenius (1824-89), with the house at Herengracht 132, Amsterdam; their daughter, Alida Maria Tutein Nolthenius (1855-1910), and her husband, Ir. Rudolph Peter Johann Tutein Nolthenius (1851-1939), with the house at Herengracht 132, Amsterdam; by whom removed from the house, before 1910; from whom on loan to the Rijks Academie voor beeldende kunsten te Amsterdam, 1921; by whom donated to the Rijks Academie voor beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, 1929;{Provenance 1683-1929 reconstructed in Van Eeghen et al. 1976, p. 441.} transferred to the museum, 1971

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

• Het Geslacht Nolthenius 2, eerste stuk, Haarlem 1930, p. 792-794.
• C.C. van de Graft, 'Gérard Lairesse en Utrecht', Maandblad van Oud-Utrecht (1942), p. 49-50.
• O. Sirèn, Nicodemus Tessin D.Y.S. Studieresor, Stockholm 1914, p. 71 (bezoek van de architect Tessin aan het atelier van Lairesse in 1687, waar hij deze schilderijen ziet).

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