Offered by Arnaud Huppé-Chambon
Rectangular painting depicting a bucolic scene in the Roman countryside painted on canvas.
In the foreground we have sheep, goats and a cow, all guarded by a young and smiling shepherd.
In the background the painter shows us the Roman countryside with ruins and distant villages.
The work has a later Italian frame, from the 18th century.
NB: good general condition, bears the signature of the artist Johann Heinrich Roos at the bottom left.
On the back of the canvas we can see several red wax seals of ownership as well as a circular label from the 17th century.
Johann Heinrich Roos (Otterberg 1631 - Frankfurt 1685), ancestor of the illustrious Roos family.
[...] a talented animal painter who had spent four years in Italy [...], but remaining substantially attached to his original Nordic-Dutch style, which he uses to represent the various herds with a more realistic imprint of his son Philipp Peter, often given excessive emphasis on the animals in the foreground.
[...] Punctual and numerous are the results that can be established not only for the animals, always in the foreground in his "Landscapes", but also for his insertions of "pastoral scenes" of intimate and tasty family flavor,