Dutch school of the XVIIth century, entourage of Nicolas BERCHEM The return of the herd Oak panel, two boards, reinforced. Height : 39,7 x 56 cm On the back a wax stamp (Lilienfeld ?)Old restorations Provenance : Sale Versailles, Mes PERRIN et FROMENTIN 10 May 1976 n°96. And according to the catalog of this sale: Former collection Van der Schrieck, Louvain; Sweig Collection, Vienna; Collection Liellenfeld, 1917, N°13. Bibliography: Gustav Glück: Niederländische Gemälde aus der Sammlung des Herrn Lilienfeld in Wien, Vienna, 1917 (repr.) 3) "Italian landscape with shepherd and flock. Oak wood; height 40, width 55.5 cm. Wax stamp on the reverse of the L. Lilienfeld collection. Inscribed lower left next to the trunk of the tree: Berchem f. - Sammlung Zweig in Vienna. Fig. page 49."

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