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Cattle and Sheep at Resting at the Edge of a Forest

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Date

c.1840

Artist

George Barret, the younger (c. 1767-1842)

Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Image Link

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/375870

Description

Barret joined his teacher, John Varley (whose work hangs nearby), as a founding member of the Society of Painters in Water-Colours in 1805. The institution promoted watercolor as a medium whose subtlety and range could approximate oil, and Barret would show over six hundred works in their annual London exhibitions during his long career. He developed a type of romantic-classical landscape anchored by rustic elements such as the herdsmen that here tend cattle before a distant castle. The golden tonality echoes the varnished oil paintings of the seventeenth-century landscapist Claude Lorrain, but Barret described trees in a singular manner, mixing gum arabic with watercolor and using a resist method to create textured branches and globular foliage. This mature work likely dates close to the end of the artist’s life. Medium: watercolor and body color over graphite, with reductive techniques and gum arabic.

Image Licence

CC0 1.0

Image Credit

Image courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Arts

Location

England

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Cows
Mammals
Mountains
Plants
Trees

Category

Landscapes & Seascapes

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