Nicolaes Berchem 1620-1683
A Shepherd and Shepherdess Sleeping Amongst Their Flock
oil on canvas
67 x 55 cm
26 3/8 x 21 5/8 in
26 3/8 x 21 5/8 in
signed and dated 1649
Provenance
Nicholas Vansittart, Lord Bexley (1766-1851);
his sale Christie, Manson & Woods, at Foots Cray Place, Kent, 1st-4th May 1876, lot 197 (2nd day), N. Berchem. An Upright Landscape, with a Female Peasant Sleeping: cows, sheep, goats, and a donkey;
Purchased from the above sale by ‘E. Smith’ for 80 guineas;
Gösta Stenman (1888-1947), Stockholm;
Bukowskis, Stockholm, 22nd-24th October 1952, lot 102;
Private collection Sweden until 2026.
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