Four Cows
Claude Lorrain · red and black chalks with gray wash on laid paper
Public domain
Open Access image from the National Gallery of Art, marked free for any use.
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About this picture
Four Cows is a public-domain drawing by Claude Lorrain. Red and black chalks with gray wash on laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Four Cows” (date not listed) is built as Claude built a landscape: a dark foreground, a bright distance, and small figures that set the scale.
About the artist
Claude Lorrain (1600–1682) was a French painter working in Rome. His landscapes open toward a low sun, with a few figures and a distance of sea or countryside.
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