Landscape with Animals at a Fountain
Jan van Huysum
Description
Subject Matter:
The drawing depicts a pastoral scene in which sheep rest by an antiquated sculpture of a vase on a plinth, and a shepherd wearing drapery approaching with cattle.
Physical Description:
This ink and chalk drawing features a lamb laying in the left foreground. In the center is a sculpture of a vase on a plinth with a reservoir at its base, from which another lamb drinks. A third lamb lays in the shadow of the statue. In the background, a human figure approaches the lambs with two cows. A large, split tree in background fills the upper left part of the composition, with further landscape and mountains indicated behind it.
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