Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem
Prolific Dutch Italianate pastoral landscape painter
Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre pieces. He was a member of the second generation of "Dutch Italianate landscape" painters. These were artists who travelled to Italy, or aspired to, in order to soak up the romanticism of the country, bringing home sketchbooks full of drawings of classical ruins and pastoral imagery. His paintings, of which he produced an immense number, (Hofstede de Groot claimed around 850, although many are misattributed), were in great demand, as were his 80 etchings and 500 drawings. His landscapes, painted in the Italian style of idealized rural scenes, with hills, mountains, cliffs and trees in a golden dawn are sought after. Berchem also painted inspired and attractive human and animal figures (staffage) in works of other artists, like Allaert van Everdingen, Jan Hackaert, Gerrit Dou, Meindert Hobbema and Willem Schellinks.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Jacob Ochtervelt Student
- Jan van Goyen Master
- Johannes Glauber Student
- Karel Dujardin Student
- Nicolaes Moeyaert Master
- Pieter De Hooch Student
- Pieter Fransz. de Grebber Master
- Willem Romeyn Student
Fellow student
Influenced
- Jan Hackaert Influenced
- Gerrit Dou Influenced
- Meindert Hobbema Influenced
- Willem Schellinks Influenced
- Abraham Jansz. Begeyn
- Carel van Falens
- Hendrick Mommers
- Jan Baptist Wolfaerts
- Jean-Baptiste Pillement
- Johann Heinrich Roos
- Pieter Bout
Artworks by this artist (151 total)
- Allegory of Winter C. 1670
- Juno Commanding Argus to Keep Watch on Io 1655 - 1683
- Travelling Peasants (Le Soir)@Landscape
- Furt in südlicher Landschaft 1665-1670
- Am Saum eines Waldes lagern Jäger, dabei ein Hirte und eine Hirtin auf einem Esel mit zwei Schafen und einer Ziege
- En hyrde med sin hund Titelblad til Geder
- Stående ged og to gedekid
- En liggende ged og en stående ged set bagfra
- The Cow Drinking 1680
- Et stående og et liggende får 2
- The Three Droves 1656
- Pastoral Scene with a Shepherdess Milking a Goat 1665-70
- Italianate River Landscape With Herdsmen By The Ruins Of An Amphitheatre, And Peasants Crossing A Bridge
- A milkmaid amongst ruins
- Liggende får med to lam
- Nine sheep
- Pissende ko
- Shepherds beside Roman Ruins 1661
- The Shepherd Playing the Flute 1648
- Peasants and Cattle