POTTER, Paulus
(b. 1625, Enkhuizen, d. 1654, Amsterdam)

Cows in a Meadow

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Oil on canvas
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

The bulk of Potter's work is devoted to horses and to scenes of cows, goats, sheep, and pigs, which show an extraordinary sensitivity to the various ways in which farmyard animals behave at different times of the day as well as to the different quality of light in the morning or at dusk in landscapes that almost invariably make country life appear idyllic. Notable too are are his portraits of dogs.




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