Goats and Sheep in a Grotto
Artist
Willem Willemsz. Buytewech
Dutch, 1624/1625–1670
Date1660s
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions30 1/16 x 25 1/8 in. (76.4 x 63.8 cm)
Frame: 38 x 33 x 3 1/4 in. (96.5 x 83.8 x 8.3 cm)
Frame: 38 x 33 x 3 1/4 in. (96.5 x 83.8 x 8.3 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased in honor of the late Mamie Elliot London (Mrs. Henry M. London) with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest) and the London Memorial Fund.
Object number87.8
On View
Not on viewPublished ReferencesOtto Naumann, "Willem Buytewech the Younger," Essays in Northern European Art (Doornspijk: Davaco Publishers, 1983), 194, 197, illus. fig. 1.
"Recent Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Summer 1987), 12-13, illus. (b-w) 12.
"Principales Acquisitions Des Musées En 1987," Gazette Des Beaux-Arts, no. 1430, p. 66.
"N.C. Museum of Art displays newly acquired 17th-century painting," Raleigh: The News and Observer (Sunday, April 5, 1987), 34A.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 101.
Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 8, illus. (color) 39, also mentioned xii.
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