Landscape with Shepherd and Shepherdess

Most landscape paintings are wider than they are tall. Mancadan turned this one on end, a panel about 35 centimetres high and 28 wide, with a shepherd and a shepherdess and their animals in the rocky, hilly country he painted again and again. He liked to close his views with slopes and outcrops, and the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden has pointed out how rarely his pictures show a horizon.

Between 1919 and 1922 the panel was with Jacques Goudstikker, the leading Amsterdam art dealer of those years. In 1923 the collector H.E. ten Cate gave it to the Mauritshuis. It belongs to the Mauritshuis and hangs in the Gallery Prince Willem V on the Buitenhof in The Hague.