Willem Romeyn was a pupil of Berchem. His scenes are usually depicted from a near vantage point, in close-up as it were, and they lack the sweeping vistas that many landscape painters preferred. Here, we see a barn with a thatched roof and a farmer with a donkey, surrounded by cattle, sheep and goats. Typically, the trees contain partially withered branches. A rolling, barren landscape fills the background.
| Artist |
Willem Romeyn
RKD
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| Title | Landscape with Animals Resting |
| Date | ca. 1650 |
| Period | 17th century |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | signatures (names) bottom right: WROMEY[N] [“WR” aaneen] |
| Collection | paintings AAT |
| Object type | oil paintings (visual works) AAT |
| Inventory number | 1948-Q |
| Acquisition credit |
purchase
Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels 1948-06-24 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1948-Q |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/1638/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300015636
landscapes
AAT
300263554 animal paintings AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
24F
firmament, sky
Iconclass
25F animals Iconclass 25G3 trees Iconclass 25I3 farm or solitary house in landscape Iconclass 26A clouds Iconclass 300015636 landscapes AAT 41A17 farm (building) Iconclass 46C13142 ass, donkey Iconclass 46C13144 hinny Iconclass 47I2111 bull Iconclass 47I2112 cow Iconclass 47I213 sheep Iconclass 47I214 goat Iconclass 47I221 herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc. Iconclass |
| School / Style | Baroque AAT |
| Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. I, p. 146-147 (ill.)) |
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