Lot 169: Philip Peter Roos, called Rosa da Tivoli (St. Goar 1657-1706 Rome)

A peasant surrounded by dogs, sheep, a bull and other animals within a landscape inscribed with inventory number '143' in white (lower left) oil on canvas, unlined 55 1/8 x 85 3/8 in. (140 x 216.9 cm.) inscribed 'Philipe Rosa, x' and 'N o 143 (on the reverse of the canvas) and 'Sammlung von der Schulenburg Hehlen 1957 No. 7' (on a label on the stretcher) PROVENANCE Field Marshal Count Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (1661-1747), by whom sent to Germany in April 1738 (A. Binion, op. cit. 1990, p. 265), and bequeathed to his nephew Adolph Friedrich von der Schulenburg, Berlin, and by descent. LITERATURE Inventario Generale della Galleria di S: Eccellza Felt Marescial Conte di Sculembourgh..., 30 May 1738 (A. Binion, op. cit., 1990, p. 203). Inventario Generale della Galleria di S.E. Maresciallo Co: di Schulemburg..., Venice, 30 June 1741 (Binion, p. 228). Inventaire de la Gallerie de Feu S. e. Mgr. le Feldmarechal Comte de Schulenburg. Tableaux de f.c. … Berlin/Des tableaux … Hehlen, c. 1750, no. 143 (Binion, p. 278). A. Binion, La Galleria scomparsa del maresciallo von der Schulenburg. Un mecenate nella Venezia del Settecento, Milan, 1990, pp. 203, 228, 265 and 278. NOTES One of a set of four pictures by Roos of similar size acquired by Field Marshal Count Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (nos. 142-145 of the c. 1750 inventory). Another picture of this set, A young goatherd with two dogs and six goats in an Italianate lanscape (inscribed with inventory no. '142'), was sold in these Rooms, 7 July 2000, lot 231 (œ17,625). Dr. Hermann Jedding suggests a date for the set of circa 1695-1700 (letter). He points out that at this time the artist often places a large ox above the herd, examples of this is a picture in a private collection, Frankfurt (H. Jedding, Johann Heinrich Roos, Mainz, 1998, fig. 23,2) and a set of four in the Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona ( ibid., fig. 289-93).