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| Title | View through a Wood | |
| Alternative Title | Wooded Landscape with a Drover; Landscape and Cattle | |
| Collection | Victoria Art Gallery, Bath | |
| Artist | Circle of Arthois, Jacques d` (Flemish painter, 1613-1686) Previously attributed to Lambert, George (British painter, 1710-1765) |
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| Date Earliest | probably about 1635 | |
| Date Latest | possibly about 1800 | |
| Description | A large landscape close to the style of Jacques d'Arthois. The painting depicts a clearing in a wood, looking towards a sunlit landscape on the horizon. The foreground comprises a fallen tree and large forest plants. Dense trees rise on either side of the clearing. To the right, a drover leans on a stick as he tends his animals at a pond several goats, cattle and a sheep. | |
| Current Accession Number | BATVG:P:1923.29 | |
| Subject | landscape; animal (cattle); figure | |
| Measurements | 182.9 x 238.8 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Given by Mr John Humfrey Hope 1923. | |
| Provenance | Collection of Miss Helen Augusta Hope by 1917-1923; by decent to John Humfrey Hope. | |
| Principal Exhibitions | Society of Artists Exhibition, 1761, cat. no. 60 (?). | |
| Publications | Sloman, S.,, Victoria Art Gallery: Concise Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings, Bath, 1991, p. 66 (as attributed to George Lambert). | |
| Notes | The attribution of the work to the Circle of d'Arthois was retained on the advice of M. de Kinkelder, who observed that the figure style is different to that seen in other Arthois landscapes, and suggested the figures may have been added in the eighteenth century. Arthois frequently collaborated with other painters for the addition of figures to his landscapes, but the figure style in the present work is closer to the style of Nicolaes Berchem. There are some discrepancies in scale, such as the relatively giant human figure and the diminutive cattle in the right foreground. The painting had been loaned to the museum by Miss Helen Augusta Hope, 1917-1923; Miss Hope (d. 1923), of Rock House Bath, loaned 41 works to the Victoria Art Gallery in 1917. Following her death, her heirs donated the gallery ‘the landscape by George Lambert, and the three pieces of statuary'. The present work was described on a list of the loaned works: ‘From the Dining Room:- / 1. Landscape and Cattle / George Lambert 1710-1765' |
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| Rights Owner | Victoria Art Gallery, Bath | |
| Author | Dr Susan Steer | |