Nº 46
Reading edition
George Poggenbeek DUTCH: 1853-1903
DUTCH MEADOWS
Height, 11½ inches; length, 19½ inches
The motive for this picture was found in the broad pasture meadows of Holland, where narrow canals run through the land, and here and there trees break the monotony of the surface and the grass is dotted with feeding cattle. A narrow ditch, partly filled with growing rushes, reflects, in the foreground, the light of the sky, and near it, on the right, a few black and white Dutch cows are lying on the grass. Beyond, in the middle distance, the gleam of water shows the line of a canal, and on the right a lofty tree, dominating a row of pollarded willows, rises high against the sky, which is filled with quietly drifting cumuli.
Signed at the lower left, G. Poggenbeek.