CIRCLE OF PHILLIPP PETER ROOS (GERMAN, C. 1655-1706)

CIRCLE OF PHILLIPP PETER ROOS (GERMAN, C. 1655-1706)
A Herder with cattle, sheep and goats, within an extensive landscape
oil on canvas
90 x 114 cm. (35 1/2 x 41 in.)

Phillipp Peter Roos trained in Amsterdam and specialised in idyllic pastoral scenes with herdsmen and livestock in the manner of such Italianate Dutch painters as Berchem and Dujardin. His works in this vein were copied and imitated into the 19th century.