Illustrated catalogue of paintings, pastels and water colors collected by the late David CLyall of Brooklyn . & Co,Boston CATTLE BY CONSTANT TROYON CONSTANT TROYON 91—CATTLE frl .* This is essentially a cattle piece, for the ani-mals, a red and a white cow, form the one impor-tant feature of the composition. They stand, inthe strong light of mid-afternoon, head to head,caressing one another after the manner of theirkind. Close behind them is a mass of wild flow-ers, indicating the uncultivated border of awheat field, and beyond is a narrow strip of lowcountry in the distance. The sky
Illustrated catalogue of paintings, pastels and water colors collected by the late David CLyall of Brooklyn . & Co,Boston CATTLE BY CONSTANT TROYON CONSTANT TROYON 91—CATTLE frl .* This is essentially a cattle piece, for the ani-mals, a red and a white cow, form the one impor-tant feature of the composition. They stand, inthe strong light of mid-afternoon, head to head,caressing one another after the manner of theirkind. Close behind them is a mass of wild flow-ers, indicating the uncultivated border of awheat field, and beyond is a narrow strip of lowcountry in the distance. The sky which occupiestwo-thirds of the picture is of a clear deep bluewith a few drifting clouds near the zenith. Signed at the left, C. Troyon, 1856. Height, 2Sy2 inches; length, 36 inches. A. T. Stewart Collection, EARLY SPRING BY CHAKLES FEANgOIS DAUBIGNY C. F. DAUBIGNY 92—EARLY SPRING On the right a grassy eminence, surmountedby a clump of trees, slopes to a river which leadsinto the picture from the left and disappears,winding away beyond a tree-crowned point. Thesky is covered with a lofty stratum of vapor,showing here and there a note of blue and ac-cented by the forms of cumulus clouds driftingbelow it. The moisture-laden atmosphere softensthe sunlight, which throws cool shadows on thegrass and intensifies the contrast between treesand sky. Signed at the right, Daubigny. Height, 2Sy2 inches; length, 39 inches.
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