title: Peasants with Cattle by a Ruin
text: # Peasants with Cattle by a Ruin
  
  Peasants with Cattle by a Ruin is a 1650–1697 painting by Abraham Begeyn, now in the National Gallery, London. It shows a rural scene with a capriccio-style ruin.
  
  A block of stone (bottom right) bears a monogram which probably refers to Nicolaes Berchem, but art historians hold that the monogram is probably a fake and that the attribution to Begeyn is secure.
  
  