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Cow beside a Ditch
Also titled Koe aan de slootkant
Willem Maris (The Hague, 1844–1910)
c. 1885 - c. 1895
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 65 cm x width 81 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of the heirs of W.J. van Randwijk, The Hague
- 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
It is a sweltering summer day in a polder landscape in Holland. Willem Maris caused a furore with this subject matter. Already in the 17th century, artists found a scene such as this – of a cow cooling off in the water – picturesque. Maris succeeded in rendering the natural fall of light on the cow by modelling its coat in alternating thick and thin brushstrokes.
