Romantical landscape with young shepherds, cows, sheep's and goal was executed around 1810-1820 and due to very close manner, and composition was attributed to the hand of famous Dutch landscape and animale painter Jan van Ravenswaay (1789-1869).

Jan van Ravenswaay was a 19th-century landscape painter from the Northern Netherlands. He was born in the town of Hilversum.

Ravenswaay was the son of a cotton mill owner in Hilversum. He studied drawing with Jordanus Hoorn in Amstersfoort, before following lessons from Pieter Gerardus van Os. He traveled in Belgium, Germany and Switzerland before becoming a member of the Royal Academy of Art in Amsterdam. He won an honorable mention for a landscape in a competition at Felix Meritis in 1818. In 1832, Jan became a member of the artist society Arti Sacrum in Rotterdam.

Noteworthy among his pupils were Jacobus Theodorus Abels and Remigius Adrianus Haanen. His niece Adriana van Ravenswaay also became a painter.

Literature: Wikipedia, Artist lexicons : ThIeme/ Becker, Saur, Bénézit and others.

Inscription: unsigned.

Technique: oil on canvas, original period gold-plated frame.

Measurements: unframed 25 1/4" x 21 1/2" (64 x 54,5 cm), framed 31 1/8" x 27 1/2" ( 79 x 70 cm).

Condition: painting in very good condition, original frame have minor traces of wear and tear.