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| Title | Landscape with Shepherd and Sheep | |
| Collection | Victoria Art Gallery, Bath | |
| Artist | Attributed to Roos, Philipp Peter (German painter, 1657-1706, active in Italy) | |
| Date Earliest | probably about 1677 | |
| Date Latest | probably about 1706 | |
| Description | In the foreground several sheep are huddled resting; an old shepherd sits with his dog to the right. The landscape background is reminiscent of southern Italy with ruins in the middle-distance to the right, and a hilltop village to the left. The present painting forms a pair with Landscape with Shepherd Boy and Sheep (BATVG:P:1900.14). | |
| Current Accession Number | BATVG:P:1900.13 | |
| Former Accession Number | A11 or A12 | |
| Subject | landscape; figure (shepherd); animal (sheep; dog); buildings and gardens | |
| Measurements | 99.2 x 74.7 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Bequeathed by Mrs Arabella Roxburgh 1896. | |
| Publications | Wright, C., Old Master Paintings in Britain: An Index of Continental Old Master Paintings executed before c.1800 in Public Collections in the United Kingdom, London, 1976, p. 175; Sloman, S.,,Victoria Art Gallery: Concise Catalogue of Paintings and Drawings, Bath, 1991, p. 95 (as attributed to Philipp Peter Roos). | |
| Notes | As well as six paintings (including the pendant to the present work), Mrs Arabella Roxburgh bequeathed almost £10,000 for scholarships, an art gallery and/or library for Bath. The endowment greatly assisted the foundation of the Victoria Art Gallery in 1897. Mrs Roxburgh published a volume of poetry entitled Gleanings from Nature, Edinburgh, 1869. | |
| Rights Owner | Victoria Art Gallery, Bath | |
| Author | Dr Susan Steer | |