The art of the Louvre, containing a brief history of the palace and of its collection of paintings, as well as descriptions and criticism of many of the principal pictures and their artists (1905)
Potter, Mary Knight, d. 1915 · Boston, L.C. Page & company · leaf 456
great canvases by Constant Troyon hang onopposite sides of this Salle des Etats. Until the open-ing of the Thomy-Thi6ry collection these were the onlyTroyons the Louvre owned. Oxen Going to Work is the name of the picture bywhich Troyon is probably best known throughout theWestern world. Probably,… … o c H o 0 cc o>-» o Salle fces Etats 353 extent of fields smoking under the early rays of the sun,of the glowing, sun-bathed sky, of the heavy, patientoxen, — of any part or of the whole of this composition,only superlatives rise to the lips. Over a rough roadway, through a deeply furrowedfield…
Musée du Louvre · Painting
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