A Wooded Landscape with a Shepherd and His Family
c. 1635/1640
Artist, Neapolitan, 1610 - 1685
Artist, Italian, 1609 - 1664

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with later(?) touches of green watercolor on laid paper, laid down on old mount
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 19.1 × 28.7 cm (7 1/2 × 11 5/16 in.)
mount: 29.9 × 38.4 cm (11 3/4 × 15 1/8 in.) -
Accession
2022.40.27
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Jonathan Richardson Sr., London [1667 - 1745] (Lugt 2184). P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London); Donald Stone, New York [1942 - 2020]; bequest to NGA, 2022.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
by later hand, lower right in graphite: G. Benedetto; by later hand, lower left of mount in graphite: D. 24698; by later hand, lower right on mount in graphite: Benedetto / The Good Samaritan; by later hand, upper center verso of mount in brown ink: [cut off and undeciphered] / X 17 / O.; by later hand, upper left on mat verso in graphite: The Good Samaritan GD Benedetti / from R. Collection
Markings
onathan Richardson Sr., London [1667 - 1745] (Lugt 2184)