Modern french masters; a series of biographical and critical reviews by American artists (1896)
Van Dyke, John Charles, 1856-1932 ed · New York, The Century co. · leaf 240
tunate in itspossession of a most superb work — a so-called Holland Cat-tle and Landscape —representing Troyon at his very best. Itis unique in its qualities of composition and its choice of sub-ject. In this work, showing a group of cattle in the foregroundpartly in shadow, with others standing in… … CONSTANT TROYON I49 ment and coloration, are well studied ; and the broad sweepof lowland, with its far receding depth of wooded meadowand marshy river-banks carrying the eye to the low horizonoverhung with a summer blue sky, lends to the whole a gran-deur and charm of atmospheric effect quite…
Painters -- France · Painting, French · Painting -- Reproduction
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