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Description: | This work is striking within Bonheur's oeuvre as it constitutes a landscape with animals playing only a subsidiary role. The animals themselves, whilst only small, are still expertly observed and undoubtedly enliven the scene considerably. Her ability to capture the realism of rural life and to combine it with the achievements of modern landscape painting, developed by such artists as Constable and Turner, helped overcome the division between landscape and animal painting. Originally thought to depict an imaginary scene, recent comparison with a group of views by Turner suggests that the painting portrays a view of the ruined chteau of Arques, just outside Dieppe. The castle was very popular with artists during the nineteenth century, though Bonheur's composition contrasts with that of Turner, as she uses a low, rather than a high viewpoint, thus giving the work a more imposing, romantic quality. | Subjects: | landscape; animal (cow); place (chateau de Arques) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Bonheur, Rosa (French animal painter, 1822-1899) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8344... | Go to resource |
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