Cow Drinking

Idle herders and resting livestock set amid crumbling architecture, rocky cliffs, and babbling brooks—these are all hallmarks of the “Italianate” landscape, a subgenre within 17th-century Dutch landscape art.

Despite Nicolaes Berchem’s renown as an Italianate artist, he never actually ventured south of the Dutch Republic. Here, he conjured Italy’s ancient heritage with a moss-covered tomb bearing the faint traces of a carved relief.