Koe en hond

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height 70 mm x width 130 mm

Art Historical Context

Jacobus Buys’sKoe en hond”Cow and Dog) a delicate example of eighteenth Dutch draftsmanship. in the crayon manner—amaking technique developed to the soft, textured lines chalk or pastel drawings—the work measures just by 130 millimeters. intimate scale invites close, revealing the subtle tonal gradationsys achieved through stippled hatched strokes that mimic-drawn crayon. Active between1740 and 1, Buys worked a period when Dutch often turned to everyday rural, reflecting both a continuing interest in naturalistic and the period’s growing for humble, pastoral. The simple pairing of cow and do...

About the Artist

Jacobus Buys · 1724–1801

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