Jan van Bijlert Utrecht 1603-1671
A shepherd cutting a reed flute
signed 'J. Bÿlert f.' (upper left)
oil on canvas
29¼ x 24¼ in. 74.3 x 61.6 cm.
Jan van Bijlert Utrecht 1603-1671
A shepherd cutting a reed flute
signed 'J. Bÿlert f.' (upper left)
oil on canvas
29¼ x 24¼ in. 74.3 x 61.6 cm.
E. Schaar; Lempertz, Cologne, 24 November 1955, lot 406.
with Alfred Brod Gallery, London, by whom gifted to
The Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1958.
C.G. Coley, 'Three Dutch Allegorical Paintings', Bulletin Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, XLVII, no. 2, June 1962, pp. 10-11.
G.J. Hoogewerf, 'Jan van Bijlert, schilder van Utrecht (1598-1671)', Oud Holland, 80, 1965, no. 71. Catalogue of European Paintings, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 1970, pp. 77-78.
B. Nicolson, The International Caravaggesque Movement, Oxford, 1979, p. 28.
A. McNeill Kettering, The Dutch Arcadia: Pastoral Art and its Audience in the Dutch Golden Age, Totowa, 1983, p. 35, fig. 8.
P.C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America, Grand Rapids, 1986, p. 332.
B. Nicolson, Caravaggism in Europe, Oxford, 1989, p. 71, fig. 1337.
London, Alfred Brod Gallery, Paintings by old masters exhibited at the gallery of Alfred Brod, 1956, no. 7.
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