A Wooded Landscape with a Shepherd and His Family

c. 1635/1640

Andrea De Leone

Associated Names
Andrea De Leone

Artist, Neapolitan, 1610 - 1685

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Artist, Italian, 1609 - 1664

The image is shot from a slightly elevated point of view, showing various details in the surroundings. The horizon and sky with a few soft clouds are visible in the background. The style appears to be a pen drawing with fine line work creating texture on trees and the landscape. The color palette consists of shades of brown, giving the image an antique look. Two slender trees are visible in the foreground, with figures and animals in the middle ground. In the distance, the landscape rises and falls, with mountains blending into the horizon.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with later(?) touches of green watercolor on laid paper, laid down on old mount

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Donald Stone

  • 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 Number

    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)

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