Pre-Valentine Wonderful Sale
Lot 151:
Description
Keywords: Belgian School, animal painting, pastoral scene, rural landscape, livestock, cattle study, sheep study, meadow scene, farm animals, 19th century European art, Romantic realism, agricultural scene
Eugène Verboeckhoven oil on canvas pastoral painting depicting cows and sheep resting in a meadow with trees, distant fields, and a dramatic sky. Signed and Dated 1853 lower right.
Verboeckhoven was a pupil of Balthasar-Paul Ommeganck, whose classical pastoral landscapes became a model for his own paintings, such as the Landscape with Cattle and A Cowherd by a Tree, on display at the Rijkmuseum in Amsterdam and Halting Place.
He is deemed to be one of the foremost animal painters of the nineteenth century. In Verboeckhoven’s work animals often bear human characteristics and are reminiscent of bourgeois portraits of the time. In his book on Verboeckhoven, Berko writes "he could have been called the "Raphael of sheep", for his rams are so well drawn.
In 1827, Verboeckhoven moved to Brussels with his family, and soon thereafter was made a director of the Musee de Bruxelles.
Measurement: Art: 25 1/2 x 34 1/2 in. (64.8 x 87.6 cm.) approx
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