Claes Moeyaert (Amsterdam 1592-1655)

With its delicate rendering of the trees and the architecture in the background this is probably one of Moeyaert's earliest drawings (Tümpel, op. cit., p. 36). It is comparable to a Landscape with shepherds driving their flock past a ruined bridge, also given to Moeyaert, in the Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth (M. Jaffé, The Devonshire Collection of Northern European Drawings, Turin, London, Venice, 2002, III, no. 1460).