Nº 17
Reading edition
Johannes Hendrik Weissenbruch DUTCH: 1824-1903
A SUMMER DAY IN HOLLAND
Water Color
Height, 21½ inches; width, 13½ inches
Four spotted cattle, watched by a small boy in a blue blouse, broad white trousers, black cap and wooden shoes, are resting, partly in sunlight and partly in shadow, near a sandy road which leads from the foreground to a lofty straw stack in the distance overhung by tall trees in heavy foliage. The full summer sun falls upon the landscape, casting a broken shadow upon the middle distance and illuminating the great masses of vapor which fill the sky.
Signed at the lower right, J. H. Weissenbruch.