Nº 86
Reading edition
Willem Maris DUTCH: 1844-
UNDER THE WILLOWS
Height, 50 inches; width, 34 inches
A row of pollarded willows, with several taller trees rising high against the summer sky, grow upon the low grassy bank of a shallow waterway. A herd of cows, some of them on the bank, others cooling themselves in the water, are watched by a peasant, who stands under the trees, and beyond, down the broad canal, which is half choked with bunches of reeds and water-weeds, a vista extends to a mysterious distance under a lofty summer sky with great drifting sun-tipped cumuli.
Signed at the lower right, Willem Maris.