Jacob Backer

Shepherd



Jacob Backer - Shepherd



Jacob Backer
Shepherd
c. 1644
52.2 x 40.8 cm
Oil on panel
Mauritshuis, The Hague


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler I, Landau/Pfalz, 1983, nr. 36

Collection catalogues
Compiled by Quentin Buvelot, Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague; Zwolle, 2004, pp. 56-57


Exhibitions

2008 Jacob Backer (1608/9-1651), Rembrandts tegenpool, Nr. 24
1983 The impact of a genius: Rembrandt, his pupils and followers in the seventeenth century, Nr. 1

Provenance

Count Otto Thort and heirs, Gavnø Castle, Denmark, 1785-1976
Robert Noortman Gallery, London and Maastricht
Mauritshuis, The Hague, purchased 1977
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External links

RKD 1964
Mauritshuis, The Hague Accession number 1057

Other works by Jacob Adriaensz. Backer


Jacob Backer Portrait of a Woman as Euterpe
Portrait of a Woman as Euterpe
c. 1649/50

Attributed to Jacob Backer Old Woman in an Armchair
Old Woman in an Armchair
1635

Jacob Backer Portrait of Jan Lutma
Portrait of Jan Lutma
c. 1646

Jacob Backer Saint Andrew
Saint Andrew
c. 1630

Jacob Backer Old Man
Old Man
c. 1632/33