Beskrivning: I förgrunden en rödklädd ryttare på en vit häst samt en herre med dam på en ljusbrun, hundar och bondfolk. Till vänster bondkvinnor och några bönder i färd med att klippa en fårahjord framför en lantgård med många människor och höga träd. I bakgrunden till höger en i lövträd inbäddad gårdsanläggning samt till vänster därom ett gult sädesfält med skördemän. Molnig himmel.

Catalogue raisonné: Description in Flemish paintings C. 1600-C. 1800 III, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2010, cat.no. 96: 

Technical notes: The support consists of a piece of
what is probably linen woven in a plain weave technique
with the original format of c. 62 x 73 cm and has been
extended with two sections of equal size at the left and
right sides. The lower section has also been extended
along the entire edge. The coarse fabric used for the
extension is probably woven from jute. The tacking
edges have been preserved in the original painting. No
cusping is visible.

The preparation consists of an even and thick dark
brown ground that also covers the tacking edges. The
ground completely covers the structure of the support.
Secondary fabric extensions have been added. They are
prepared with a white ground.

The paint layer has been applied opaquely with small
areas of highlights in impasto. The technique is economically
executed. The yellow cornfield in the background
has been painted dry using a brush filled up with paint.
The trees in the background have been painted into the
reserves left for them in the sky with adjustments of the
foliage painted over the sky. The fine detail in the figures
in the foreground have been painted using a fine brush.
The faces and hands are modelled delicately. The palette
consists of earth colours, red and white.
The painting underwent conservation treatment in
1909 in connection with the extension of the painting,
when it was given its current format to serve as a door
lintel (see no. 97).

Provenance: Drottningholm 1845, no. 401 ½ a.
This painting is a companion piece to the preceding
entry (no. 97) and served as a framed lintel at Drottningholm
palace. Since 2007 both works have been
held in the Nationalmuseum’s storerooms. The painting,
which is referred to first in the Drottningholm
inventory for 1845, depicts a horseman in the foreground
dressed in red on a white horse as well as a
man and woman on a light-brown horse and a number
of dogs and country people. On the left we see several
peasant women and some menfolk shearing a herd of
sheep in front of a farmyard with a lot of people and
tall trees. In the background on the right, a tree in leaf
is depicted as well as a walled farmyard and on the left
a yellow cornfield with reapers. The landscape in the
work and the figures were probably painted to symbolise
summer in a suite with the theme of the four
seasons. In the Drottningholm inventory it is attributed
to Pieter van Laer, also called Bamboccio, his
style. But for technical and stylistic reasons the painting
seems to be Flemish rather than Dutch. There are
stylistic similarities in particular to a number of works
by the artist Lambert I de Hondt. A comparable work
that displays similarities in the rendering of the
figures, the depiction of the trees and the shape of the
house can be found in the collections of the Philadelphia
Museum of Art.1 The painting at Drottningholm
has been extended to serve as a door lintel.
KS

1 See Landscape with Soldiers outside an Inn, Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Pennsylvania inv. no. 690. [End]

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