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The Bad Shepherds
Maker
1534-1593
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Width: 30.6 cm
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The iconography stems from a Biblical parable in which Jesus identifies himself with the good shepherd who lays down his life to protect his flock. The contrasting bad shepherds neglect their sheep and allow the sheepfold to crumble into ruin.
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Exhibition History
Landscapes in the Making: Dutch & Flemish 16-17th Century Drawings from the Courtauld Gallery, Tobu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, 03/11/2000-24/12/2000; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, 02/02/2001-11/03/2001; Koriyama City Museum of Art, Koriyama, 17/03/2001-15/04/2001
The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 03/09/1986-30/11/1986; The Drawing Center, New York, 08/04/1986-26/07/1986 ...More
Mantegna to Cezanne - Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 24/02/1983-19/06/1983
Between Renaissance and Baroque: European Art 1520-1600, Manchester City Art Gallery, 1965
Das flämische Landschaftsbild des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, Galerie Gottschewski und Schäffer, Berlin, 06/11/1927-30/11/1927; Bochum, 1927-28
Exhibition of Belgian and Flemish Art 1300-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1927 ...Less
Literature
under no. 160
de Ramaix, Isabelle, Johan Sadeler I, The Illustrated Bartsch 70 Part 2 (Supplement), London, 2001
p. 26 under no. 7001.238
The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 3
ill. on p. 31 ...More
Roetlisberg, Marcel, ‘New Works by Bartholomeus Breenbergh’, Oud Holland, 99, 1, 1985, pp. 57-66
p. 59
Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
cat. no. 14
ill. on p. 28
Hollstein, F.W.H., Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts ca. 1450-1700, Amsterdam 1949-2004
XXI (1980, Aegidius Sadeler to Raphael Sadeler II), p. 127 under no. 274
G.L. Conran, Between Renaissance and Baroque: European Art 1520-1600, Manchester City Art Gallery, 1965
cat. no. 270
Franz, H.G., 'Hans Bol als Landschaftszeichner' in 'Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Instituts der Univeristat Graz, 1965
pp. 45, 62, no. 98
pl. LXXXIV, fig. 98
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 123
Exhibition of Belgian and Flemish Art 1300-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1927, 1927
cat. no. 538 ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: lower right, graphite: “H. Bol”. Verso: upper left, light brown ink, four lines of text, faded and mostly illegible: “[…] 1576”; upper centre, light brown ink, three lines of text, faded and mostly illegible: “12 […]”. Mount (removed, in portfolio from P&D), recto, lower right, graphite: “1.59”; on remnant of separate paper at centre, graphite: “122”.
Collector's mark: Mount (removed, in portfolio from P&D): lower right corner, stamped in black ink: William A. Baillie-Grohman (L.370); twice in lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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