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A Cow Grazing
Creator
Adriaen van de VeldeDutch Artist · 1636–1672
All works by this person →Adriaen van de Velde first studied with his father Willem van de Velde the Elder, then trained with a landscapist in Haarlem. He produced his first known works, six etchings, in 1653 and had returned to Amsterdam by 1657. Van de Velde's varied body of paintings, drawings, and prints is comprised primarily of small landscapes in sparkling light softened by the haze of the nearby sea, with people an
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- about 1663
- Medium
- Red chalk, black framing lines
- Culture
- Dutch
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Adriaen van de Velde habitually ventured out in the countryside to sketch cattle and landscapes for his paintings. Before ever beginning a painting, he made a preliminary compositional sketch, proceeded to chalk studies of the animals and figures, and then completed a finished drawing. Departing from the usual norm of his animal drawings, van de Velde placed this cow not in a natural setting but in a close-up, seen from an angle that accentuates the animal's block-like form. Her neck, left shoulder, and head catch the sun directly, while light rakes across her back to reveal muscled forequarters, a protruding belly, and sunken hindquarters above the udder.
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