A Herdess with Cows on a Country Road in the Rain

A Herdess with Cows on a Country Road in the Rain

SK-A-3695

signature: ‘A Mauve f.’

A herdess is walking under her umbrella as she drives her four cows forward. ‘The soaking wet atmosphere is captured so well that one’s feet start to feel wet if one looks at the work too long,’ one critic wrote. In contrast to Mauve’s pictures of horse-riders, where the horses always move towards the horizon, the cows in his cattle paintings generally head straight at the viewer.

draughtsman: Anton Mauve (mentioned on object)

1848 - 1888

zwart krijt, aquarel., penseel in kleuren

height 355 mm x width 555 mm

Zie voor de voorstudie: RP-T-2010-31

Mr and Mrs Drucker-Fraser Bequest, Montreux

bequest 1944

Public domain

…; on loan from Jean Charles Joseph Drucker (1862-1944, Montreux) and Maria Lydia Drucker-Fraser (1886-1944, Montreux), with 204 other drawings, to the museum, 1919;{Note RMA.} by whom bequeathed, with 204 other drawings, to the museum, 1944

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