Shepherds with their Flocks

Artist David (the younger) Teniers (1610 - 1690)

Artist Francois Ryckhals (Dutch, 1600 - 1647)

Place of OriginNetherlands

Date1640

DimensionsH: 25 3/8 in. (64.4 cm); W: 33 3/4 in. (85.7 cm)

MediumOil on wood panel

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1953.73

Not on View

Published ReferencesBuchanan, W., Memoirs of Paintings, London, 1824, vol. II, p. 75, no. 54 (as "Landscape with a View of Antwerp in the distance, a Shepherd, Shepherdess and Cattle. Painted with great spirit on panel..." As this book deals with pictures imported into Britain since the French Revolution, it suggests that Hamilton acquired the Teniers on the Continent.)

Smith, J., A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, London, 1842, III, no. 386.

"Recent Accessions of American Museums," Art Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 4, Winter, 1953, p. 350, repr.

Wittmann, Otto, "The Golden Age in the Netherlands," Apollo, vol. 86, no. 70, Dec. 1967, p. 468.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, pp. 157-158, pl. 112.

Klinge-Gross, Margaret, "Herman Saftleven als Zeichner und Maler bäuerlicher Interieurs," Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrburch, bd. 38, 1976, p. 91, n. 81.

Leppert, Richard, "David Teniers the Younger and the Image of Music," Jaarboek van het Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerpen, 1978, p. 139, repr. fig. 58.

Jenkins, Ian and Kim Sloan, Vases and Volcanoes: Sir William Hamilton and his Collection, London, 1996, p. 83, fig. 41.

Meijer, Fred G., Franchoys Ryckhals: Een Zeeuwse Meester Uit De Gouden Eeuw, Zwolle, Netherlands, Uitgeverij WBOOKS, 2019, p. 84. repr. (col.) fig. 114 [in Dutch].