Caption

Woman and cow in meadow, Un verger au printemps, French etchings from 1878, L'eau-forte en 1878, print, Series number, 19, 30, collector's mark: 'AFE v S', watermark, printmaker: Léon Barillot, publisher: widow Alfred Cadart, Paris, 1878, paper, etching, drypoint, intaglio printmaking technique, height 200 mm x width 278 mm, meadow, pasture, cow, A sepia-toned etching shows a large grazing cow in the foreground with its head lowered to the grass, partially obscuring a standing figure behind it who appears to be wearing a dress and a head covering; the scene is set in a grassy meadow edged by dense trees and foliage with varied trunks and leafy canopies, and a distant figure is faintly visible among the trees; fine crosshatched lines create texture in the grass, the animal’s hide, the tree bark, and the shaded sky.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26B25_210

License type

Rights managed

Available size

34.7Mb (10.4Mb) / 13.7in x 9.9in / 4096 x 2958 (300dpi)

Keywords

Woman cow meadow verger au printemps French etchings 1878 L'eau-forte en 1878 print Series number 19 30 collector's mark AFE v S watermark printmaker Léon Barillot publisher widow Alfred Cadart Paris paper etching drypoint intaglio printmaking technique height 200 mm x width 278 mm pasture sepia-toned etching large grazing foreground head lowered grass partially obscuring standing figure wearing dress head covering scene set grassy meadow edged dense trees foliage varied trunks leafy canopies distant figure faintly visible trees fine crosshatched lines create texture animal’s hide tree bark shaded sky