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Mountain Landscape with Cattle
(18th and 19th Centuries )
The setting of this small painting is a brightly, though unevenly lighted landscape with a lake in the middle ground and high, rounded hills beyond. In the center foreground, two steers are locking horns in combat. Other cattle graze beneath trees at the right. The herbage in the foreground is rendered in meticulous detail.
When acquired, this picture was listed as the work of Karel Dujardin (1612-1678). It was subsequently attributed to Hendrik Voogd (1768-1839), a painter from Amsterdam who studied with Jurriaan Andriessen before establishing himself, in 1788, in Rome, where he received the epithet, the "Dutch Claude" for his Italianate landscapes portrayed at dawn or dusk. Evidence to confirm the attribution to Voogd remains insufficient, but the painting is probably the work of an early 19th-century Dutch artist.
Provenance
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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 12/7/1970 | Examination | examined for condition |
Geographies
Netherlands (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 10 × W: 13 7/8 × D: 7/8 in. (25.4 × 35.3 × 2.2 cm) (unframed)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.1806