Landscape with Shepherds

Artist
nationality
Flemish
birth-death
1554-1626
Creation date
Collection
European
Materials
oil on wood
Dimensions
23 x 38 in.
Currently On View
Location
Carolyn & William C. Griffith Gallery
Credit line
Gift of Colonel and Mrs. A. W. S. Herrington
Accession number
57.150
Provenance
Possibly from a Private Collection, Radnor, Wales;{1}Sale (Sotheby's, London) in 1956;{2}(David M. Koetser Gallery, New York); Arthur W. Herrington, Indianapolis;{3}given to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1957.

{1}This possible former owner is suggested in correspondence dated March 1957, regarding shipping damage en route to Indianapolis, see IMA Historical File (57.150).
{2}See Sotheby's, London, Catalogue of Fine Old Master and English 18th Century Paintings…, 14 July 1956, cat. no. 112 with list of buyers' names (D. Koetser). Although property of a Georgiana Bulteel was sold at this auction, this painting was included in the "Various Properties" section of the auction catalogue. The Bulteel provenance that was published in Dwight Miller, Indianapolis Museum of Art: Catalogue of European Paintings, Indianapolis, 1970, p. 44 is therefore erroneous.
{3}See the catalogue, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.S. Herrington of Indianapolis, Indiana, Krannert Art Museum, 1964, no. 10 (ill.) to which the Indianapolis Museum of Art loaned the painting.
Gallery Label

A native of Antwerp, Paul Bril lived for nearly fifty years in Rome, where he was the most influential landscape artist of his generation. He specialized in decorative landscape frescoes and produced small paintings like this one for private collectors.

As a result of the high demand for his works, Bril's workshop often produced multiple copies of popular compositions. Five other versions of this landscape are known.

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