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Shepherd Seated at a Fountain, facsimile of an etching by Berghem, 1870. Creator: Unknown.

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Shepherd Seated at a Fountain, facsimile of an etching by Berghem, 1870. 'To those admirers of Nicholas Berghem's landscapes, &c., in oil, who may be unacquainted with his etchings, the painter's mastery of the etcher's tools may be a surprise. The characteristics of his pictures will, however, be readily recognised in the fine etching which we reproduce by a cognate art. There is the same happy introduction of appropriate figures and animals; there is the same unfailing sense of the picturesqueness in the disposition of those figures and animals in relation to the other portions; and there is the same genuine pastoral feeling pervading all. Nicholas Berghem, like so many other painters of the Flemish and Dutch schools, was a well-practised and skilful etcher. He used the more advanced resources of the art without losing much of that frank suggestiveness which is the most essential charm of the etching-needle pur et simple. This present important example, well known to collectors, is signed and dated "Berghem f. [fecit - ie made], 1652," and is minutely described in Barsch's "Peintre-Graveur." It was exhibited in the Leeds National Exhibition of Works of Art'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM24A49_301

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56,0Mo (5,8Mo) / 33,4cm x 42,0cm / 3949 x 4960 (300dpi)

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