White Cow
Also titled Witte koe
Willem Maris (The Hague, 1844–1910)
c. 1880 - c. 1910
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 27 cm x width 37 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- C.D. Reich Bequest
- 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
Willem Maris may have used this small painting as a preparatory study for several of his large compositions with a cow. From the cow’s contours, it is clear that it was painted in light colours over a dark brown ground. Willem Maris was the only artist in his group who consistently worked in this way. Most Hague School painters used a light ground.
