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Catalogue raisonné: Description in Flemish paintings C. 1600-C. 1800 III, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2010, cat.no. 16:

Technical notes: The support consists of a single
piece of plain weave fabric. The tacking edges are preserved
on all sides but only in fragments on the upper
edge. The painting may have been trimmed slightly. It is
mounted on a non-original stretcher.
The light brown ground has been applied thickly and
evenly to cover the texture of the fabric completely. The
paint has been applied opaquely and covers the ground.
The figures are finely modulated without any coarse of
broad brush strokes and rendered with a few pastously
painted details. Fine details in the figures and animals in
the foreground and also finely rendered details in the
dress of the woman in the foreground and in the rider on
the white horse. The foliage has been painted over the
blue sky in the background. There have been colour
changes in the outer parts of the foliage. Today they have
a brownish colour. The palette consists of a red pigment,
different blues (the sky and the woman’s skirt), the men’s
jackets with a grey shade that could indicate a colour
change and earth pigments. The painting is in good condition.
The painting underwent conservation treatment
in 2005–2006.

Provenance: Coll. G. Fredrikson. Bequeathed by A.
Bogeman in 1946.

Bibliography: NM Cat.1958, p.18; NM Cat.1990, p. 33.

As Pieter van Bloemen occupied a central position
among the artists from the Netherlands who depicted
life in Rome and its surroundings towards the end of
the 17th century, his name has far too frequently been
linked to works in this genre. He habitually monogrammed
his works and therefore it is wise to exercise
caution when assigning unsigned examples.
The attribution of this painting, which was already
ascribed to Pieter van Bloemen before acquisition,
seems, however, to be justified. The composition combines
a great number of Van Bloemen’s characteristic
elements, such as the almost sculpturally formed cattle,
the rider on horseback in the foreground and the
train of horses and wagons wending its way through
the background. The leaves on the trees in the middle
ground are executed in a way that is also characteristic
of Pieter van Bloemen’s technique.
GCB
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