A woman riding side-saddle on a mule converses with a woman encountered among flocks grazing on a mountain pass. Aquatint and etching after N. Berchem.

  • Berchem, Nicolaas Pietersz, 1620-1683.
Date:
[between 1700 and 1799]
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3087714i
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A woman riding side-saddle on a mule converses with a woman encountered among flocks grazing on a mountain pass. Aquatint and etching after N. Berchem. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

An Italianate setting. The woman standing in the pass is spinning wool from a distaff in her left hand on to a spindle in her right hand. Some very shaggy sheep, a donkey and cattle graze on the pass. Right, a shepherd wearing a hat and a fleece rests against a cow

Publication/Creation

[between 1700 and 1799]

Physical description

1 print : aquatint and etching ; image 43.9 x 52.5 cm

Lettering

Impression catalogued bears no lettering

References note

John Smith, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish and French painters, London 1834, part the fifth, p. 10, no. 8 (not the present print but the painting that was engraved by Aveline: "A landscape, beautifuly varied with rocky hills, clothed with trees and underwood. In the centre of the fore-ground is a woman on a mule, in conversation with another who stands by her side, spinning with a distaff; these are surrounded by two cows, an ass, and a sheep; and at a little distance from them, to the left, is a herdsman leaning on a cow, near which are three sheep. Engraved by Aveline. 4ft. 5 in by 5 ft. - C. Collection of M. Julienne. 1767 ...")
Marcel Roux , Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du dix-huitième siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Cabinet des estampes, tome I, Paris 1931, p. 315, no. 17 (not the present print but the engraving by Aveline: "Paysage avec figures et animaux, "gravé d'après le tableau original de P. [lire N.] Berghem." Sous le tr. c. : "P. Berghem peinx. . P. Aveline sculp." H. 0m441 X L. 0m532. L'état décrit Pièce annoncée dans le Mercure de septembre 1734 (p. 2025-26) : "Tout ce qui marque du goût et du génie mérite de justes éloges, surtout dans les beaux-arts. Voici le cas d'en donner à l'estampe que le sieur Aveline vient de graver d'après un tableau de Berghem, que le sieur Uquier [i.e. Huquier] apporta l'année passée d'Hollande... c'est un des plus grands et des plus beaux de ce peintre... l'estampe que nous annonçons est de ce caractère ; on y voit deux femmes, dont l'une est assise sur un mulet, une autre debout, filant sa quenouille, un berger gardant son troupeau, moutons, vaches, etc... Elle se débite... chez le sieur Uquier, au bas du Quay de la Mégisserie, vis-à-vis la porte du Châtelet." Cette estampe fut exposée au Salon de 1753 [i.e. 1735?] (p. 35 du livret)."

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3087714i

Creator/production credits

Authorship not ascertained. Possibly by Maria Catherina Prestel (but not in C. Schwaighofer, Das druckgraphische Werk der Maria Catherina Prestel, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München, 2003) or Regina Catherina Quarry or Carey (Regina-Catharine Schoenecker)? The name "Berghem" is inscribed in pencil on the verso of the impression catalogued

Reproduction note

A painting of this composition on canvas, in the same direction, was catalogued by Smith (loc. cit.) as having been in the collection of M. Julienne. The same or another painting of the same composition was offered for sale by Hampel, Munich, on 11 April 2013, lot 669, as "Idyllische Landschaft", attributed to Nicolaas Berchem. The present aquatint may be copied from such a painting, or from an engraving of the same size and in the same direction made in 1734 by Pierre Aveline (M. Roux, loc. cit.)

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