Siberechts, Jan (1627-ca. 1703) Italian Landscape... Lot 932

Siberechts, Jan (1627-ca. 1703) Italian Landscape with Shepherds, 1649, oil on panel. Depiction of an evening landscape. On the left is a slope with a waterfall cascading down it. In the foreground is a meadow at the edge of the forest where sheep are grazing. A pair of shepherds dancing to the flute. Behind them a ravine into which the waterfall disappears. Boulders and sunlit landscape can be seen in the background. Further shepherds can be recognised in the distance. A house is enthroned on a hill. The scene is flanked by an oak tree swaying upwards on the right edge of the picture. Siberechts, born in Antwerp in 1627, was a member of the Guild of St Luke in Antwerp at the time this work was created. His early work is characterised by Italian landscapes. He is thought to have travelled to Italy in 1650. Siberechts lived in London from 1672 until the end of his life. This work is signed and dated "J. Sieberechts 1649" lower right. The owner purchased the work from a private collection in the 1980s. Plate 49 x 57.5 cm. Frame 58 x 66 cm.