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Italian Landscape
Also titled Italiaans landschap
Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem (Haarlem, 1620–1683)
1650 - 1683
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 65 cm x width 81 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
It is not certain whether Berchem ever travelled to Italy, but he excelled in rendering idealized scenes of the Italian countryside. His paintings were in great demand precisely because they included all the popular clichés: mountainous landscapes, warm light, hazy blue distances, bright skies and, of course, herders and shepherds with their cattle and sheep at watering holes or resting in the cool shade.
