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A Meadow with Two Cows

Image credit: National Trust Images

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This wonderfully illuminated painting dates from the artist's first visit to Brittany in the summer of 1886. Although employing looser strokes, his meticulous use of small flecks of paint in paired complementary colours shows knowledge of the 'point' technique employed by the Neo-Impressionist Seurat and his followers Signac and Lucien Pissarro. He would have seen their work at the eighth and last Impressionist exhibition that same year, where he also exhibited.

Schuffenecker is little known compared to his contemporaries although he was a colleague and good friend of Gauguin and Émile Bernard and an early collector of the works of Van Gogh. This painting was first owned by another artist, Georges Daniel de Monfried (1856–1929), also a friend of Gauguin.

National Trust, Mompesson House

Salisbury

Title

A Meadow with Two Cows

Date

1886

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 50.5 x W 63.5 cm

Accession number

724321

Acquisition method

bequeathed by Mr R. Fitzmaurice, 1984

Work type

Painting

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The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP1 2EL England

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