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Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem

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PaintingBaroque

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• Baroque

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Why this artist matters now

Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre pieces.

Source: Nga · Trust score: 40% · Updated 7d ago

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Baroque

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Painting

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National Gallery of Art

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Artworks (13)

Pastoral Scene with a Shepherdess Milking a Goat

1660 · Oil on panel

24.8 × 31.1 cm (9 1/4 × 12 1/4 in.); Framed: 40 × 46.7 × 4.5 cm (15 3/4 × 18 3/8 × 1 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ruins in Italy

1658 · panel, oil paint (paint)

width: 41.5 cm, height: 51.5 cm

Rijksmuseum

The Three Droves

1656 · panel, oil paint (paint)

height: 44 cm, width: 66.5 cm

Rijksmuseum

Vrouw die een schaap melkt

1655 · brush on graphite (mineral), ink, deck paint, chalk, paper

width: 144 cm, height: 201 cm

Rijksmuseum

The City Wall of Haarlem in the Winter

1647 · oil paint (paint), panel

height: 39.5 cm, width: 48.5 cm

Rijksmuseum

Goat

1640 · Graphite on ivory wove paper, tipped onto ivory laid paper

11.4 × 14.2 cm (4 1/2 × 5 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Man Herding Cows and Sheep

1640 · Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash, over graphite, on ivory laid paper

11 × 9.1 cm (4 3/8 × 3 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Man on Horse Talking with Man on Foot

1640 · Brush and brown wash, with graphite, on cream wove paper

8.3 × 6.9 cm (3 5/16 × 2 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Johann Georg Platzer

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Christoffel Jacobsz van der Laemen

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Baroque

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National Gallery of Art

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