Nº 51
Reading edition
Willem Roelofs DUTCH: 1814-1894
SUMMER IN HOLLAND
Height, 12½ inches; length, 20 inches
A peasant is driving a flock of sheep and a single cow along a broad, broken country road, which winds from the middle distance around to the foreground. On either side of the road grow tall elms and other trees, and beyond the flock of sheep, in a passage of full sunlight, stand several thatched cottages along the grass-grown road. The sky is filled with luminous summer clouds, and the haze of early morning softens the distant rank of trees which extends across the composition beyond the cottages.
Signed at the lower right, W. Roelofs.