Rijksmuseum

White Cow

Date

c. 1880 - c. 1910

Medium

panel, oil paint (paint)

Institution

Rijksmuseum

Willem Maris may have used this small painting as a preparatory study for several of his large compositions with a cow. From the cow’s contours, it is clear that it was painted in light colours over a dark brown ground. Willem Maris was the only artist in his group who consistently worked in this way. Most Hague School painters used a light ground.

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