Cow beside a Ditch

Cow beside a Ditch

SK-A-2706

signature: ‘Willem Maris’

It is a sweltering summer day in a polder landscape in Holland. Willem Maris caused a furore with this subject matter. Already in the 17th century, artists found a scene such as this – of a cow cooling off in the water – picturesque. Maris succeeded in rendering the natural fall of light on the cow by modelling its coat in alternating thick and thin brushstrokes.

C. Harms Tiepen, Willem Maris'herinneringen, Den Haag, 1910, p. 15.

painter: Willem Maris

c. 1885 - c. 1895

olieverf op doek

height 65 cm x width 81 cm

Gift of the heirs of W.J. van Randwijk, The Hague

gift 1914-07

Public domain

C. Harms Tiepen, Willem Maris'herinneringen, Den Haag, 1910, p. 15.

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