Landscape with resting shepherd and buildings

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Landscape with resting shepherd and buildings, to scale
77 × 87 mm, beside a 1.8 m figure.
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Landscape with resting shepherd and buildings

Catalogue ID1.70
Artist Pieter (I) van der Borcht (1530-1611) (Formerly attributed to); Master of the Roman Songbook (1650-1660); Domenico Jacovacci (1604-1661)
Object type vignette
Dateca. 1650
Collection Unknown present location
Shab (New York)
Tech. / supportink, paper, pen
Measures77 × 87 mm
Subject25H15 — forest, wood
25H213 — river
25I12 — prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city

Wooded landscape with gently sloping terrain and a cluster of prominent trees occupying the central foreground. Beneath their foliage, two seated figures appear in conversation or repose. In the background, a river winds through a densely built townscape with bridges and towers, partially visible through the vegetation.

No musical work linked.

Bianco, Anna. Images for the Music: Drawings and secular cantatas. Ph.D. dissertation, Leiden University, 2025

Bianco, Anna. “The Master of the Roman Songbook.” Going South: Artistic Exchange between the Netherlands and Italy in the 17th Century, vol. IX, RKD & NIKI, 2023. (nr. 31)

Unknown present location current

Shab