Evening landscape with cattle and shepherds

Painted in 1652 by Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, the work was later acquired for the collection of Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz. It subsequently entered the holdings of the Bavarian State Painting Collections. The painting is now located at the Alte Pinakothek.

Evening landscape with cattle and shepherds, painted by Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem in 1652, is held by the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. The work forms part of the Bavarian State Painting Collections and entered the museum through the Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz collection, a historic electoral acquisition that supplied the institution with many of its early holdings. The painting, executed in oil on canvas, measures 48.2 by 64 cm.

No exhibition history is documented in the available sources.

The painting belongs to the landscape genre within Dutch Golden Age art, reflecting Berchem's role in the Italianate landscape tradition. It is part of the Johann Wilhelm von der Pfalz collection held by the Bavarian State Painting Collections at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, where it remains on display.

Scholarship emphasizes its compositional balance and naturalistic treatment of light, characteristic of Berchem's mature period following his travels to Italy. The work exemplifies 17th-century Dutch landscape painting through its detailed rendering of cattle alongside shepherds within an idealized pastoral scene.

Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem’s oil painting Evening landscape with cattle and shepherds was completed in 1652. Executed during the Dutch Golden Age, the work presents a quiet rural scene bathed in the soft light of dusk. It is part of the collection of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, where it remains on display as an example of mid‑seventeenth‑century Dutch landscape art.