Loading
Landscape with Shepherd and Sheep that Drink in the River
Pieter Mulier IIlast decade of the XVII century
Museo Diocesano Milano
Milano, Italy
Details
- Title: Landscape with Shepherd and Sheep that Drink in the River
- Creator Lifespan: around 1637 - 1701
- Creator Nationality: Dutch
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Milan
- Creator Birth Place: Haarlem
- Date: last decade of the XVII century
- Provenance: Archbishop's Painting Gallery, Pozzobonelli Collection
- Physical Dimensions: w92 x h56.5 cm
- Painter: Pieter Mulier called the Cavalier Tempesta
- Description: Mentioned in the inventory of the eighteenth-century Pozzobonelli Collection and attributed to Pieter Mulier, called the Tempesta, this canvas, along with its counterpart Landscape with Shepherds is exemplary of the work of the artist, who is Dutch by birth but Italian by adoption. After training in Northern genre painting and traveling to Antwerp in 1656, Mulier settled permanently in Italy, moving between Rome, Genoa, and Lombardy in the final years of his career. In this work, the landscape is a place of fantasy, a pastoral scene in which the figures play a secondary role. The scenery is dominated by the large hill and the background with a group of trees on the left, which are lit from behind.
- Type: painting
- Rights: © Archivio fotografico Museo Diocesano, Milano
- Medium: oil on canvas
Get the app
Explore museums and play with Art Transfer, Pocket Galleries, Art Selfie, and more
You are all set!
Your first Culture Weekly will arrive this week.