Nº 87
Reading edition
Willem Roelofs DUTCH: 1822-1897
PASTURE NEAR THE DUNES
Height, 34 inches; length, 55 inches
Extending across the foreground, a placid expanse of water reflects the sky, the distant dunes, the deep foliage of trees and the forms of cattle feeding on the pasture beyond. On the left a great clump of sunlit rounded trees raise their lofty crowns against the sky, and in the distance, across a broad marshy meadow, is a level line of sand dunes broken by irregular masses of verdure, terminated on the extreme right by a steep tree-clad slope, and showing beyond it a second line of dunes in the distance. Great rounded sunlit clouds float low in the sky, suggesting a quiet day in full midsummer.
Signed at the lower left, W. Roelofs.