KAREL DUJARDIN | AN EXTENSIVE LANDSCAPE IN THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA WITH CATTLE AND SHEPHERDS

Joseph Gillot;

By whom sold, London, Christie's, 3 May 1872, lot 323, as signed and dated 1675 (for £78.15 to P. and D. Colnaghi);

George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859-1925);

Thence by descent to his second wife, Grace Elvina Curzon, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston;

By whom sold, London, Christie's, 10 July 1931, lot 57, as signed and dated 1675 (for £27.6 to Ackermann);

Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 6 June 1984, lot 137;

There acquired.

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch and Flemish Painters... London 1926, vol. 9, p. no. 234;

E. Brochhagen, "Dujardins späte Landschaften," in Bulletin des Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique vol. 4 (1957), p. 237, note 5;

E. Brochhagen, Karel Dujardin. Ein Beitrag zum Italianismus in Holland im 17. Jahrhundert. PhD diss., University of Cologne 1958, p. 123;

J.M. Kilian, The Paintings of Karel du Jardin 1626 - 1678: Catalogue Raisonné, Amsterdam 2005, p. 217, cat. no. 128, reproduced plate 101.

Karel Dujardin worked in France, Amsterdam and The Hague, and finally traveled to Italy in 1675 and died in Venice three years later. His Italianate landscapes were quite popular in the late seventeenth century among patrons who had made a Grand Tour themselves or aspired to do so. The campagna had inspired his works before his trip, but Dujardin's style changed completely once he arrived in Italy: his color palette became darker and his figures smaller, such as seen in this picture, which was likely completed after 1675.