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Cows in a Meadow, ca. 1866

  • oil paint, panel
  • 27.5 x 50.7 cm
  • Inv. 1913-N

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Although Charles-François Daubigny is usually associated with the painters of the Barbizon School, one of the locations where he painted and drew from nature was the Forest of Fontainebleau. He usually spent the summer months in Auvers-sur-Oise, and also travelled a great deal both at home and abroad. Daubigny also owned ‘le Botin’ a painter’s boat on which he sailed down the River Oise and the Seine. The sketch entitled Cows in Meadow was painted during one of these rambles. It is a fleeting impression painted with a quick and sketchy touch. The size and material of the support, a panel, suggests that it was painted directly, to capture the motif.

Artist

Charles-François Daubigny RKD
Paris 1817 - Paris 1878
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Title Cows in a Meadow
Date ca. 1866
Period 19th century
Location France TGN
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings auction stamp bottom left: VENTE / DAUBIGNY
Collection paintings AAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number 1913-N
Acquisition credit gift
Scribe, Fernand
Ghent
1913
Current whereabouts Work on display
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IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/592/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 25H landscapes Iconclass
300263554 animal paintings AAT
Keywords Iconclass 21D water (one of the four elements) Iconclass
22 natural phenomena Iconclass
22C light Iconclass
22C1 natural light Iconclass
22C8 shadow Iconclass
25F animals Iconclass
25F(+536) animals (+ lying animal) Iconclass
25F2 mammals Iconclass
25G31 shrubs Iconclass
25G4(GRASS) plants and herbs (GRASS) Iconclass
25H landscapes Iconclass
25H1 landscapes in the temperate zone Iconclass
25H153 bush, shrubs ~ forest Iconclass
25H17 meadow, pasture Iconclass
25H2 landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone) Iconclass
25H21 water course Iconclass
25H213 river Iconclass
25H217 river bank Iconclass
26A clouds Iconclass
41A54 fence, wall, paling Iconclass
47I2112 cow Iconclass
School / Style realism (artistic form of expression) AAT
Barbizon School AAT
Catalogus van het Museum van Schoone Kunsten Gent : II: Moderne Meesters / Georges Chabot, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Ad. Hoste, 1932 (p. 53)
Charles-François Daubigny (Fonds Richard de Moor). - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.]
Charles-François Daubigny : 1817-1878 ; Avec supplément / Robert G. Hellebranth, Anne Hellebranth. - Morges : Editions Matute, 1976
De vrienden van Scribe : De Europese smaak van een Gents mecenas (tentoonstelling Gent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 12 december 1998 - 14 maart 1999) / Monique Tahon-Vanroose, Robert Hoozee. - Gent : Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1998 ; Antwerpen : Pandora, 1998 (p. 157 (ill.))
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. II, p. 122-123 (ill.))
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