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Landscape with Two Donkeys, Goats and Pigs
Also titled Landschap met twee ezels, geitjes en varkens
Karel du Jardin (Amsterdam, 1626–1678)
1655
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 35.5 cm x width 46 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
A farmer separates the wheat from the chaff, while chickens eagerly pick at the fallen grains. The raking light of the low-hanging sun evokes an early evening atmosphere. The architectural style of the cylindrical building in the distance situates the scene in Italy. Such southern pastoral and peasant idylls were Du Jardin’s speciality.
