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Landscape with Cattle by a Stream

Image credit: The National Gallery, London

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On the left a rocky hillside leads down to grassy pasture and a river. Cart tracks run through the pasture from the front edge. Cows graze, watched by a dog, and a lone washerwoman kneels on the right bank of the river, her white linen visible in the water. The river is the Cure in the Morvan region of Burgundy, an area that Daubigny frequently visited from the 1830s onwards. This work was probably painted in the studio as a souvenir of the area.

The sunset sky, reflected in the river, adds to the sense of solitude which pervades the landscape. Daubigny has brought the sky paint round and over the trees and bushes, squeezing in strokes of pink and orange between the three tall trees at the right. He also used an unusual tool, possibly a graining comb, to create textural effects in the sky.

The National Gallery, London

London

Title

Landscape with Cattle by a Stream

Date

1872

Medium

Oil on wood

Measurements

H 35.6 x W 66 cm

Accession number

NG6324

Acquisition method

Bequeathed by Pandeli Ralli, 1928

Work type

Painting

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