Nº 78
Reading edition
Jacob Simon Hendrik Kever DUTCH: 1854-
PLAYMATES
Height, 23 inches; length, 31½ inches
A little Dutch girl, with a young child in her charge, is seated in the sunlight upon the rich grass of an orchard, and near them stands a white goat, which a lad is fastening to a stake by a cord. The warm light of midsummer falls upon the group, touching here and there the figures of the children and the goat, flecking the blossoms and leaves of the fruit trees in the background, and making strong contrasts of light and shade on the richly growing grass under the trees.
Signed at the lower right, Kever.