Core Record |
| Title |
A Country Gathering by a Bridge |
| Collection |
Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): Kelvingrove Museum |
| Artist |
Berchem, Nicolaes (Dutch painter, printmaker, and draftsman, 1620-1683) |
| Date Earliest |
probably about 1660 |
| Date Latest |
probably about 1665 |
| Signed |
yes |
| Description |
To the left is the archway of a bridge. To the right a weathered stone building. In the foreground a gathering of people, horses, pack mules, goats and sheep. A woman sits on a horse centrally with a riderless horse in front of her. A blacksmith is shoeing a mule in front of that. To the right some figures sit at a table below an improvised awning while on the parapet of the bridge, women are hanging clothes to dry. |
| Current Accession Number |
566 |
| Former Accession Number |
35 (1893) |
| Inscription |
front lr 'NBerchem F' (NB in monogram) |
| Subject |
landscape; figure; animal (horse; sheep; goat; dog; donkey); buildings and gardens |
| Measurements |
73.3 x 98.7 cm cm (estimate) |
| Material |
oil on canvas |
| Acquisition Details |
Bequeathed by Mrs John Graham-Gilbert 1877. |
| Provenance |
D. McIntosh sale, London, 16 May 1857, lot 68, bought by Nieuwenhuys, dealer; C. Scarisbrick sale, London, 18 May 1861, lot 490, bought by Smith, dealer, £514.10s, for John Graham-Gilbert (1794-1866); by descent to Mrs. John Graham-Gilbert. |
| Publications |
Smith, J., A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, London, V, 1834, no. 74; Hofstede de Groot, C., 'Hollandsche Kunst in Schotland', Oud Holland, 11, 1893, p. 137, no. 35; Hofstede de Groot, C., A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, IX, Esslingen, 1926, Berchem, no. 136; Miles, H., Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Paintings in the Glasgow Art Gallery, Glasgow, 1961, I, p. 23, no. 566, II, p. 35; Wenley, R., 'Masterpieces of a Merchant City', Apollo, CLXIX, 2006, p. 45, fig. 7. |
| Rights Owner |
Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) |
| Author |
Robert Wenley |
