Antique European Cow Landscape Oil Painting, Ca. 1900
Antique European Cow Landscape Oil Painting, Ca. 1900
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Two cows hold a wide, open pasture, one lying down and facing a windmill on the far horizon, the other grazing in the foreground. The paint is built up thick across the grazing cow’s back and head, while the sky is handled thin and smooth and takes up more than half the picture. Unsigned, which is usual for pastoral cattle pictures of this kind, many of which were painted in quantity for the decorative trade across northern Europe.
Antique condition consistent with age. The surface shows overall craquelure under an aged, yellowed varnish. A vertical crack runs through the sky in the upper left, with a small lifted flake of paint at its top end near the frame edge, and a fainter second line sits just to its right. There are a few pale spots in the sky. The surface has not been examined under UV light, so the extent of any earlier retouching is not known. The upper right corner of the picture is slightly warped and sits lifted back from the frame.
The reverse is closed with a backing board, which was not removed. The support, its edges, and any marks or labels on the reverse are therefore not recorded. It is hung with modern D-rings and wire.
The frame shows its age. There is exposed white gesso along the left and lower rails, cracking in the laurel leaves, open mitre joints at the corners, edge wear, and dark spotting in the gilding of the outer molding. Old nail or pin holes are visible in the outer edge. The gilt ornament is otherwise well defined.
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