Landscape with Animals explained

Landscape with Animals
Other Language 1:French
Other Title 1:Paysage avec animaux
Wikidata:Q99344535
Artist:Philip James de Loutherbourg
Year:1767
Medium:oil painting on canvas
Movement:Rococo
Animal painting
Landscape painting
Subject:cattle, sheep, goats, and a donkey, with a herder and his dog
Height Metric:130
Width Metric:196
Dimensions Ref:[1]
Metric Unit:cm
Museum:Musée des Beaux-Arts
City:Strasbourg
Accession:1926

Landscape with Animals is a 1767 painting by Philip James de Loutherbourg. It is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Strasbourg, France. Its inventory number is 1062. The painting was much admired by Denis Diderot, an early patron of Loutherbourg, when it was shown at the Paris Salon of 1767. Although Diderot found the clouds unconvincing – as heavy and solid as lapis lazuli – he heaped enormous praise on the depiction of the animals, especially the white cow at the centre of the composition.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Jacquot . Dominique . Le musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg. Cinq siècles de peinture . 2006 . Musées de Strasbourg . Strasbourg . 2-901833-78-0 . 164–165.