A Woman with Cattle and Sheep in an Italian Landscape

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A young woman sits on a grassy bank spinning wool, distaff tucked under one arm. With a half-smile on her face, she looks with great concentration at her fingers untangling a lump in the wool. The twirling spindle hangs from her other hand. Karel Dujardin sets the animals that the young woman tends in a line across the foreground of the picture.

The picture was painted early in Dujardin’s career, shortly after he returned from a stay in Rome. Other Dutch artists had gathered there to paint the Roman Campagna (the countryside around the city). Dujardin had studied with Nicolaes Berchem, one of the leaders of this group (who became known as the Italianates). Their representations of the mountainous Italian landscape littered with classical or ruined buildings and of the soft, golden light of Mediterranean skies were very popular with Dutch collectors.

The National Gallery, London

London

Title

A Woman with Cattle and Sheep in an Italian Landscape

Date

1650-5

Medium

Oil on copper

Measurements

H 22.6 x W 29.4 cm

Accession number

NG828

Acquisition method

Bought, 1871

Work type

Painting

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