Nº 45
Reading edition
Theophil H. de Bock DUTCH: 1850-1904
THE POOL IN THE PASTURE
Height, 9¾ inches; length, 19¼ inches
A shallow pool in which grow rushes and water weeds extends across the foreground to the middle distance, where it is bounded by the low, broken bank of a meadow, against which are clumps of tall reeds and where a skiff, with a single figure in a blue blouse, is moored to a stake. Beyond the meadow on the left rises a sand hill, crowned with poplars and other trees, and on the right is the corner of a large wood growing on a grass covered slope, with here and there patches of sand and outcropping ledges. The sky is covered with a mass of luminous vapor.
Signed at the lower right, Th. de Bock.