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拍品专文
This painting belongs to a small group of works attributed to the 'Pseudo-Ten Oever'. This artist, active in the second half of the 17th century, is associated with Hendrik ten Oever (1639-1716), the Zwolle artist who trained with Cornelis de Bie in Amsterdam before spending his career in his native city. According to the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie in The Hague, works given to Pseudo-Ten Oever also include Cattle near a Castle in the Johnson Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (inv. 561) and Cattle and Horses with a Herdsman in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (inv. 52.109). The sculptural forms and soft contours of these paintings evoke the work of Gerrit Adriaensz. Berckheyde, the Haarlem master best known for his innovative cityscapes.
In the present work, figures and animals congregate in small groups in a crowded farmyard: on the right, a boy gingerly approaches a dog, while behind him an affectionate couple sits together, the man with an arm around his companion's shoulders. On the left, another man relaxes on a log facing a young girl accompanied by a visibly pregnant woman, an unusual sight in 17th-century Dutch scenes of daily life.
In the present work, figures and animals congregate in small groups in a crowded farmyard: on the right, a boy gingerly approaches a dog, while behind him an affectionate couple sits together, the man with an arm around his companion's shoulders. On the left, another man relaxes on a log facing a young girl accompanied by a visibly pregnant woman, an unusual sight in 17th-century Dutch scenes of daily life.