Nº 72
Reading edition
Theophil H. de Bock DUTCH: 1850-1904
AUTUMN
Height, 16 inches; length, 23½ inches
From the right foreground a broad muddy road, deeply rutted by the farmers’ carts, extends away in perspective to the distance, mostly in shadow from a rank of lofty trees overhanging a narrow canal on the left, but touched here and there by a shaft of sunlight which flashes between the great cumulus clouds which cover the sky. A peasant woman is driving a herd of cows along the road toward the distance, and on the right of the group a lofty tree, in autumn foliage and with straggling dead branches, grows on the edge of a broad meadow which extends away to the remote distance, where a line of low hills forms the horizon.
Signed at the lower left, Th. de Bock.