Full Record |
| Title |
Village Scene |
| Collection |
Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery |
| Artist |
Droochsloot, Joost Cornelisz. (Dutch painter, 1586-1666) |
| Date |
1661 (dated) |
| Signed |
yes |
| Description |
Dutch genre scenes tended to depict peasants as either rowdy and crude or as noble in their simplicity. This scene by Droochsloot falls into the latter category, with its well-behaved, rather stiff figures. The artist included the same church spire in the background of most of his villages scenes. |
| Current Accession Number |
MNEMG Bentlif 20.1897.44 |
| Inscription |
front lc 'Droochsloot 166[…]' |
| Subject |
everyday life; figure; landscape; buildings and gardens |
| Measurements |
35.2 x 50 cm.0 cm (estimate) |
| Material |
oil on panel |
| Acquisition Details |
George Amatt Bentlif collection, bequeathed through his brother Samuel 1897. |
| Publications |
Allchin, J. H., A guide to the Collections in the Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery, Maidstone, 1909, no. 20, as by Droogsloot, Joost Cornelisz.; Legouix, S., Foreign Paintings Catalogue, Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery, Maidstone, 1976, p. 15. |
| Notes |
The date on the picture is now difficult to read, but the handwritten list of pictures in the Bentlif collection at Draycott House (1892) gives it as 1661; Allchin (1909) says '166-'. |
| Rights Owner |
© Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery |
| Author |
Dr Rachel Sloan |
