Landscape with Sheep and a Château

late 18th century · Oil painting · 54.8 × 69.4 cm

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Londra, Regno Unito

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Ultimo cambio di stato: 25 set 2026
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Philips Koninck (1619-1688) was apprenticed to his older brother Jacob I in Rotterdam, probably in the late 1630s. He then returned to Amsterdam where he lived until his death. He was greatly influenced by Rembrandt and may have been one of his pupils. As the owner of a boat service and an inn, he was financially independent and could thus afford to concentrate on his favourite subject matter: landscape painting. Koninck stopped painting after 1676.

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This painting was not accepted as an authentic work by Philips Koninck in Horst Gerson's extensive monograph (1936). However it entered the V&A collection as ascribed to Philips Koninck as the picture bears many similarities with Koninck's style: the artist specialised indeed in flat landscapes of the Dutch countryside seen from a raised point of view under an enormous sky with a road or river winding towards the horizon. The use of a restricted palette of earthy colours with a diffuse blue tonality is also consistent with Koninck's manner. However he hardly used trees as a repoussoir feature and when he did, he never used them to frame his composition. For instance, in An Extensive Wooded Landscape,(1670s; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), the trees on the far left help to improve the perspective but are depicted from a relatively distant viewpoint.

In this respect, whoever painted this picture was also influenced by other manners and different compositional ideas such as by Esaias van de Velde in The Highway Robbery,Detroit Institute of Art. Following the tradition of most of Dutch 17th century landscapes, this view is most likely a reconstruction based on outdoor sketches and memory.

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