A Landscape with Goatherds
Note that this is a variant no 79 recorded in a different version of van der Doort's manuscript.
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 91, № 79
Paul Bril
Landscape with goat, (little landscape with three figures of people keeping goats)
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Medium:
panel
Light:
light from the right
Frame:
little black ebony frame
Provenance:
from the Frenchman [Le Sueur] at Hampton Court
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
bought
Location:
Room description extended:
By your majesty's especially command your pictures and rarities which you had kept at St James's in the Cabinet Room were transported and brought to Whitehall into the Privy Gallery in your Majesty's newly-erected Cabinet Room, whereof the particulars as well of the said rarities from St James's as also other Pictures medals agates or the like since by Your Majesty thereunto augmented, as by the number and bigness particularly signified doth appear as followeth
Original Manuscript page number:
Windsor MS., f. 21 and V&A MS, f. 26, no 15 (WS 208)
Charles II inventory c1666:
Whitehall, no. 371, 10 x 15
Interpreting the text:
The text in brackets comes from the V&A Manuscript
Identification certainty:
Identified
Sale Inventory c.1649-51