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Description: | This painting is very typical of the popular scenes of everyday life, or 'genre' scenes that originated in the Dutch art of the seventeenth century. They featured country people going about their daily tasks set in a landscape of rolling fields and pretty towns. In the picture we see the cows being milked in sheds during the winter. Snowflakes waft through the door and our eyes are drawn out of the shed towards the landscape with the church and spire.
Oil painting of two women milking cows in a barn. In the centre stands a white cow, the figure of a woman peering out behind it. On the left stands another woman, tipping milk from a pail into a bowl. At her feet is a black and white dog. Surrounding the women are farming tools. A cat sits at the right, hardly obvious as the eye is drawn to the light coming in through the open barn door. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Rights holder: | Wolverhampton Arts and Museums Service | Subjects: | Barns Cows Farms Farm workers Dairy cattle Dairy farming Fine arts Women Oil painting Georgian period Workers Domestic animals Milk Oil Paintings Farming Cattle Paintings Cats Dogs Narrative painting Farm animals People Rural life Country life Art collections | Temporal: | 1700 - 1765
Georgian (1714-1837) | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | van GOOL; Jan (1685 - 1763) | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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