Landscape with Animals

Landscape with Animals
Landscape with Animals
French: Paysage avec animaux
Artist	Philip James de Loutherbourg
Year	1767
Medium	oil painting on canvas
Movement	Rococo; Animal painting; Landscape painting
Subject	cattle, sheep, goats, and a donkey, with a herder and his dog
Dimensions	130 cm × 196 cm (51 in × 77 in)
Location	Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg
Accession	1926

Landscape with Animals is a 1767 painting by Philip James de Loutherbourg. It is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Strasbourg, France. Its inventory number is 1062. The painting was much admired by Denis Diderot, an early patron of Loutherbourg, when it was shown at the Paris Salon of 1767. Although Diderot found the clouds unconvincing – as heavy and solid as lapis lazuli – he heaped enormous praise on the depiction of the animals, especially the white cow at the centre of the composition.^[1]

References

1 2 Jacquot, Dominique (2006). Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Cinq siècles de peinture. Strasbourg: Musées de Strasbourg. pp. 164–165. ISBN 2-901833-78-0.

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[Jacquot-1] 1 2 Jacquot, Dominique (2006). Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Cinq siècles de peinture. Strasbourg: Musées de Strasbourg. pp. 164–165. ISBN 2-901833-78-0.

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