Moyses van Wtenbrouck (or Uyttenbroeck) (The Hague 1595-1647)
Landscape with Shepherds and Animals Near a River
Oil on wood (oak), 43.3 x 63.3 cm
Signed at lower right Mo van wtenbrouck/ 16.
Depicting a hilly landscape with shepherds and their flocks resting near a waterway that runs through a luminous valley between wooded banks, the painting is representative of an important current of seventeenth-century Dutch art which combines arcadian, historical or mythological subjects with a Mediterranean landscape known (directly or indirectly) from trips to Italy.
