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Description: Black chalk, point of brush in grey, grey wash, 312 x 398 mm. The sheet is pasted onto another with a drawing of a woman in theatre costume, visible faintly through the paper on the back. The chain lines of the latter sheet are wider apart and perpendicular to those of the drawing. Laid down. Inscribed in the left margin, in pen and grey ink, WROMEYN. Mark of the Royal Collection (Lugt 1638).

The foreground with the livestock and herdsman is drawn with a combination of chalk outlines and shading in wash, creating a flickering light in the manner of Romeyn. In contrast, the background view of Tivoli is far drier, the wash is laid out in unbroken planes, and the contours and details are drawn with even brush lines. It seems that the drawing was completed by a different (and less skilled) hand, which was also responsible for the clumsy “signature”.

These observations also apply to the following drawing. In both drawings the anatomy of the herdsmen is unsatisfactory, and in the present one the bent foreleg of the recumbent cow is also feeble. Perhaps the foreground scenes are also copies, combined with background scenery from a different source. The lack of quality becomes evident when these drawings are compared with one in the British Museum, Herdsman beneath the Rocks and Walls of Tivoli. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 389]

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