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The Three Droves
Also titled De drie kuddes
Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem (Haarlem, 1620–1683)
1656
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 44 cm x width 66.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
The late afternoon sunlight casts long shadows on the ground. Herders head home with their cattle; a shepherd boy drives his flock before him with a stick. Berchem was fond of motifs that enliven his pastoral landscapes – motifs that tell a story. Like no other artist, he defined the Dutch image of Italian country life.
