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Warm sunlight bathes a scene with a herd of five golden tan, ivory, or chocolate-brown cows lying or standing on a low hill near four people on foot and on horseback in this horizontal landscape painting. The people all have pale, peachy skin. The horizon line is about a quarter of the way up the composition and is lined in the deep distance with spires rising over trees. Close to us and at the center of the composition, two cows look off to our left in profile; one is caramel brown and lies on the ground in front of a standing, gray cow. The three remaining cows cluster to our right and…

Landscape with Herdsmen

Aelbert Cuyp (Dutch, 1620 - 1691)

mid 1650s · oil on panel

National Gallery of Art · Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926)

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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