Wooded landscape with shepherds
Inv. 19566

Proportions

Wooded landscape with shepherds, to scale
178 × 268 mm, beside a 1.8 m figure.
Open in IIIF viewer — deep-zoom & compare

Wooded landscape with shepherds

Catalogue ID1.04
Artist Domenico Jacovacci (1604-1661); Master of the Roman Songbook (1650-1660); Anthonie Crussens (1621-1665) (Formerly attributed to); Gillis (III) van Coninxloo (c. 1581-c. 1620)
Object type drawing
Dateca. 1650
Collection Staatliche Graphische Sammlung (Munich)
Inv. no.19566
Tech. / supportbrown ink, graphite, paper, pen
Measures178 × 268 mm
Subject25H15 — forest, wood
33C23 — couple of lovers
47I221 — herding, herdsman, herdswoman, shepherd, shepherdess, cowherd, etc.

Landscape with resting shepherds in the foreground. One is sitting almost at centre while playing a wind instrument, another is resting on the ground opposite to the musician, giving his shoulders to the viewer. A couple is embracing. A shepherd holding a stick on his shoulder is walking up a path. River and mountains in the distance. Atop the rock in the middle-ground is a round shaped building. Several animals and shepherds scattered in the distance.

No musical work linked.

Bianco, Anna. Images for the Music: Drawings and secular cantatas. Ph.D. dissertation, Leiden University, 2025

Bianco, Anna. “The Master of the Roman Songbook.” Going South: Artistic Exchange between the Netherlands and Italy in the 17th Century, vol. IX, RKD & NIKI, 2023. (nr. 29)

van Tatenhove 1978

Staatliche Graphische Sammlung current