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Identifier: frick-31072002485037
Title: Deluxe illustrated catalogue of the very valuable modern paintings, sculpture and other art property collected by the late Theron R. Butler, Esq [electronic resource]
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association Kirby, Thomas E. (Thomas Ellis), 1846-1924
Subjects: Theron R. Butler
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Frick Art Reference Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council METRO
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4 inches ; length, 25 inchet. Purchased from William Schaub, 1881.
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No. 53 BULL, DOG AND LANDSCAPE BY CONSTANT TROYON No. 53 CONSTANT TROYON FRENCH (1810-1865) BULL, DOG AND LANDSCAPE In this picture the greatest animal painter of his time has given us a mas-terly exhibition of his skill in portraying cattle. The principal object of thecomposition is a fine red and white bull, who stands beside a hedge in theforeground threatening, with lowered head and flashing eye, a bull-dogwhich barks impudently a few feet in front of him. He stands sidewaysto the spectator, the sunlight streaming full upon his flank, which almostseems to heave with rage as the rippling muscles make play of light andshade along his neck and massive shoulders. The scene is set in a levelmeadow, extending to the middle distance, where more cows crop the grassin the shade of a clump of trees. Beyond these the ground rises gently toa low line of hills on the horizon, meeting a sky covered with heavy rollingclouds with a single patch of watery blue near the zenith. The wholepicture is
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