1132 - Dancker Danckerts after Nicolaes Berchem, two pastoral landscapes with cattle and riders, Amsterdam

Dancker Danckerts after Nicolaes Berchem, two pastoral landscapes with cattle and riders, Amsterdam (1634 Amsterdam to 1666 Amsterdam), two sheets, etching/paper, each after Nicolaes Berchem (1621/1622 Haarlem to 1683 Amsterdam), each inscribed in the plate below the image, mounted on a support, Amsterdam. 1) "Berchem inventor." and "Dancker Danckerts fecit.", numbered "2" at the plate edge, sheet from the four-part series Landscapes with shepherds (Hollstein 18 to 21), between 1654 and 1666, pastoral landscape with a ford, a shepherd on horseback and a shepherd with staff driving cattle and goats through the water, on the left a large tree, on the right a dense group of trees and a rocky bank, in the background a building on a hill, condition commensurate with age, browned, slightly stained, image 15x23 cm (HxW), glazed, framed, frame chipped, overall 28x34 cm (HxW). 2) "Berghem inventor" and "Dancker Danckerts fecit Petrus Schenk Excudit.", impression from the publishing house of Pieter Schenk (1660 Elberfeld to 1711 Leipzig), sheet from the four-part series Pastoral landscapes after Berchem (Hollstein 4 to 7), landscape with a rock face, tall slender trees in the centre, in front on a path shepherds with donkeys, a rider, a shepherd with staff, dog and small livestock, on the right a view into a wide plain with mountains, condition commensurate with age, browned, slightly stained, with crease marks, image 19x29.5 cm (HxW), passe-partout, glazed, framed, frame chipped, overall 28x37.5 cm (HxW). Dancker Danckerts was an etcher and publisher in Amsterdam and came from an Amsterdam family of engravers, cartographers and publishers; his activity is documented from 1654 to 1666. Both sheets belong to his series of Italian pastoral landscapes after Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem, the Haarlem Italianate painter of the second generation, whose pastoral landscapes with goats, sheep and cattle at fords and resting places were widely reproduced in engravings. Berchem himself made around 60 etchings of his own. Impressions of both etchings are held by the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig. The second sheet bears the publisher's address of Pieter Schenk, who worked in Amsterdam from 1675 as an engraver, cartographer and publisher and in 1694, together with Gerard Valck, acquired the copperplates of Johannes Janssonius.