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| Johann Heinrich Roos (Otterberg/Pfalz 1631 - Frankfurt 1685)
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| A Shepherd Boy and his Herd
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Red chalk with brown ink framing lines
Signed and dated, JHRoos. Fe: / 1678
317 x 429 mm
PROVENANCE
Stiftung Wolfgang Ratjen, Vaduz (inv. D 561)
This is a highly finished drawing dating from the artist’s maturity. It is close in style, technique, and size to several finished drawings, made usually not in preparation for paintings but as independent works of art, in the Albertina, Vienna, and the Museum Boymans-van Beunignen, Rotterdam.
Johan Heinrich Roos was the leading German animal painter in the second half of the seventeenth century, and the founder of a dynasty of animal and portrait painters spanning from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Of all the members of the Roos family, it was perhaps Johan Heinrich’s son, Philip Peter Roos, better known as Rosa da Tivoli, who acquired the greatest international fame with his dramatic renderings of the Roman Campagna and eccentric animal portraits. In 1647, at the age of sixteen, Johann began his training in Amsterdam with Guillaum Dujardin, and continued with Cornelis de Bie and Barend Graat, a painter of landscapes with animals in the Italianate style. It is not known if Roos ever visited Italy, but any such study trip would have been rather short. Working in Mainz from 1653, he became court painter to the elector Carl Ludwig von der Pfalz at Heidelberg in 1664, a long-desired position, which, however, he only held for three and a half years. In 1667 he transferred to the free city of Frankfurt, where he set up shop and spent the remainder of his highly successful career.
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