A young goatherd with two dogs and six goats in an Italianate landscape

Details

Philipp Peter Roos, called Rosa da Tivoli (Sankt Goar 1657-1706 Rome)
A young goatherd with two dogs and six goats in an Italianate landscape
inscribed with inventory number '142' in white (lower left) and '57' (?) in red (lower left).
oil on canvas, unlined
56¾ x 85 in. (144 x 215.7 cm.)
inscribed 'Sammlung von der Schulenberg Hehlen 1957 No. 10' (on a label on the stretcher)

Provenance

Field Marshal Count Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (1661-1747), by whom sent to Germany in April 1738 (A. Binion, op. cit., 1990, p. 265), and bequeathed to his nephew
Adolph Friedrich von der Schulenburg, Berlin, and by descent.

Literature

Inventario Generale della Galleria di S: Eccellza Felt Marescial Conte di Sculembourgh..., 30 May 1738 (A. Binion, op. cit., 1990, p. 203).
Inventario Generale della Galleria di S.E. Maresciallo Co: di Schulemburg..., Venice, 30 June 1741 (ibid., p. 228).
Inventaire de la Gallerie de Feu S. e. Mgr. le Feldmarechal Comte de Schulenburg. Tableaux de f.c. à Berlin/Des tableaux à Hehlen, c. 1750, no. 142 (ibid., p. 278).
A. Binion, La Galleria scomparsa del maresciallo von der Schulenburg. Un mecenate nella Venezia del Settecento, Milan, 1990, pp. 203, 228, 265 and 278.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

One of a set of five pictures by Roos of similar size acquired by Field Marshal Count Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg.

Dr. Hermann Jedding suggests a date for this picture of circa 1695-1700, and notes that the goatherd, in his distinctive hat, recurs, in differing stances, in others of Philip Peter Roos's works, including a drawing, dated 1696 (Stockholm, Nationalmuseum; published in H. Jedding, Johann Heinrich Roos, Mainz, 1998, p. 215, fig. 303), and paintings in the Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Speyer (ibid., p. 204, fig. 287), the Kunsthalle, Hamburg (ibid., p. 209, fig. 295) and formerly with Neumeister, Munich (ibid., p. 219, no. 313).

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