Landscape with resting shepherd and buildings
Amsterdam, Sotheby’s 6th November 2005, lot nr. 32

Proportions

Landscape with resting shepherd and buildings, to scale
219 × 319 mm, beside a 1.8 m figure.
Open in IIIF viewer — deep-zoom & compare → Visual source: River landscape with rowing boat

Landscape with resting shepherd and buildings

Catalogue ID1.06
Artist Domenico Jacovacci (1604-1661); Master of the Roman Songbook (1650-1660)
Object type drawing
Dateca. 1650
Collection Unknown present location
Sotheby's (Amsterdam)
Tech. / supportblack chalk, black ink, brown ink, ink, paper, pen
Measures219 × 319 mm
Subject25H15 — forest, wood
25H213 — river
25I12 — prospect of city, town panorama, silhouette of city
47I221 — herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc.

Landscape with resting shepherds in the foreground. One is sitting almost at centre while playing a wind instrument, another is resting on the ground opposite to the musician, giving his shoulders to the viewer. A couple is embracing. A shepherd holding a stick on his shoulder is walking up a path. River and mountains in the distance. Atop the rock in the middle-ground is a round shaped building. Several animals and shepherds scattered in the distance.

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. 44)

Unknown present location current

Sotheby's — 2005