Artwork
Landscape with Fishermen
Landscape with Fishermen is an oil painting by the Flemish Baroque painting artist David Teniers the Younger. It dates from 1625 and is held in the collection of the Gemäldegalerie Berlin.
About this work
Subject & Meaning
The painting shows a pastoral riverside scene where a fisherman prepares his net while a dog watches nearby, cattle graze on the bank and a modest farm building sits in the background. These elements together evoke the everyday labor and rural abundance of 17th‑century Flemish countryside life, reflecting the idyllic, harmonious relationship between humans and nature characteristic of Teniers’ landscapes.
Technique & Style
Landscape with Fishermen is executed in oil paint on panel, a support favored by David Teniers the Younger for his cabinet-scale landscapes.
Landscape with Fishermen is executed in oil paint on panel, a support favored by David Teniers the Younger for his cabinet-scale landscapes. The work measures 40 cm in height by 61 cm in width, a horizontal format suited to its panoramic rural composition.
Stylistically, the painting belongs to the Flemish landscape tradition, depicting fishermen alongside cattle, a farm, a dog, and other figures within a pastoral setting. The genre subject matter and modest scale are characteristic of Teniers's early Flemish landscape production dating to 1625.
History & Provenance
Created in 1625 by David Teniers the Younger, this oil painting on panel depicts a landscape scene with fishermen. The work's ownership history includes possession by Jean-Baptiste Thomas de Pange, Louis François, Prince of Conti, and Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, whose collection it joined. It was subsequently owned by Moriz Königswarter before entering the holdings of the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin.
Landscape with Fishermen is held by the Gemäldegalerie Berlin. Its inventory number is not specified in the sources. The work entered the collection of the Cabinet de Monseigneur le duc de Choiseul before passing through several owners including Moriz Königswarter, Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, Louis François, Prince of Conti, and Jean-Baptiste Thomas de Pange.
It has been displayed in exhibitions at the Gemäldegalerie Berlin and the Kunsthaus Zürich. The painting measures 40 cm by 61 cm and depicts a fisherman, cattle, a dog, and a farm.
Overview
David Teniers the Younger painted Landscape with Fishermen in 1625. The work presents a tranquil rural setting, centered on a shallow pond where figures are engaged in everyday activity. A modest farmhouse with a thatched roof, grazing livestock and a low horizon complete the composition, which now belongs to the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin.
Artist & collection
Artist
David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II was a Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, and artist.
