Landscape with Shepherd and Sheep that Drink in the River

Pieter Mulier IIlast decade of the XVII century

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

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