Nº 41
Reading edition
Johannes Hendrik Weissenbruch DUTCH: 1824-1903
A DUTCH PASTURE
Height, 8 inches; length, 16 inches
A broad level pasture, in which a few black and white cattle are feeding, extends from the foreground to the distance, where the horizon line is formed by an irregular row of trees, broken by a windmill and the roofs of farm buildings. From the right foreground a narrow canal runs under a foot bridge, and, reflecting the strong sunlight from the sky, breaks the green expanse of the meadow in a diagonal line to the left. Through rifts in the low floating clouds a warm summer sunlight bursts forth and floods the landscape.
Signed at the lower left, J. H. Weissenbruch.