Artwork
Southern Landscape with Herdsmen
Southern Landscape with Herdsmen is an oil painting by the Dutch Golden Age artist Adam Pynacker. It dates from 1670 and is held in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst.
About this work
Technique & Style
Southern Landscape with Herdsmen is an oil painting executed on canvas, a standard combination for seventeenth-century Dutch landscape production.
Southern Landscape with Herdsmen is an oil painting executed on canvas, a standard combination for seventeenth-century Dutch landscape production. The work is classified as a landscape and depicts a man within a southern pastoral setting, consistent with Pynacker's Italianate orientation. Pynacker was known for a refined handling of light and atmosphere, and the painting reflects the technical conventions of mid-to-late seventeenth-century Dutch Italianate landscape practice, with oil paint applied to a canvas support to render herdsmen in a luminous outdoor environment.
The work is held by the Statens Museum for Kunst in Denmark, where it is catalogued as a painting in the landscape genre.
History & Provenance
The oil painting Southern Landscape with Herdsmen was created by Adam Pynacker in 1670. Executed on canvas, the work is a landscape genre piece depicting figures within a pastoral setting. The Statens Museum for Kunst currently holds the painting in its collection.
While the specific commission details and earlier ownership chain are not documented in the available sources, the work's inception is firmly established as 1670.
Southern Landscape with Herdsmen by Adam Pynacker is held in the collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst. The painting, created in 1670, is executed in oil on canvas. While the source confirms the museum's possession of the work, no specific inventory or accession number is provided in the available records. Additionally, the provided sources do not contain information regarding any exhibition history for this specific landscape.
Overview
Southern Landscape with Herdsmen is a 17th-century oil painting by Adam Pynacker, a Dutch artist known for his landscapes.
Subject & Meaning
The painting depicts a serene rural scene with two men in a wooded area, one standing and the other playing a flute, accompanied by a herd of animals on a hillside.
Artist & collection
Artist
Adam Christiaensz Pynacker or Pijnacker (15 February 1622, Schiedam - buried 28 March 1673, Amsterdam ) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, mostly of landscapes.
