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Antique Goupil & Cie. photogravure print from the picture by Rosa Bonheur.
Printed on mid-weight ivory colored stock. Reverse side is blank.
Title: Plowing in Nivernais
Publication: The Masterpieces of French Art
Publication Year: 1883
Approximate Page Size (in inches): 14 x 11
Approximate Image Size (in inches): 10 x 5
Condition: Very good overall condition, clean. Atticpaper.com watermark does not appear on actual print.
Quoting art critic Philip Hamerton's enthusiastic description: "I hear, as I write, the cry of the ox-drivers -- incessant, musical, monotonous. I hear it not in imagination, but coming to my open window from the fields. The morning air is fresh and pure, the scene is wide and fair, and the Autumn sunshine filters through an expanse of broken, silvery cloud. They are ploughing not far off with two teams of six oxen each -- white oxen of the noble Charolais breed -- sleek, powerful beasts, whose moving muscles show under their skins like the muscles of trained athletes. Where the gleams of sunshine fall on these changing groups, I see in nature that picture of Rosa Bonheur's Ploughing in Nivernais." There is a touching anecdote in connection with this picture. Her father, also an artist, when on his death-bed, and feeling his end approaching, desired to see his already famous daughter's latest work, and there was brought to his bed-side, Ploughing in Nivernais. The dying artist beheld and wept. A silent tribute, it is recorded, more prized by his daughter than all the world's applause in after years.
They are ploughing not far off with two teams of six oxen each -- white oxen of the noble Charolais breed -- sleek, powerful beasts, whose moving muscles show under their skins like the muscles of trained athletes. Where the gleams of sunshine fall on these changing groups, I see in nature that picture of Rosa Bonheur's Ploughing in Nivernais." There is a touching anecdote in connection with this picture. Her father, also an artist, when on his death-bed, and feeling his end approaching, desired to see his already famous daughter's latest work, and there was brought to his bed-side, Ploughing in Nivernais. The dying artist beheld and wept. A silent tribute, it is recorded, more prized by his daughter than all the world's applause in after years.
They are ploughing not far off with two teams of six oxen each -- white oxen of the noble Charolais breed -- sleek, powerful beasts, whose moving muscles show under their skins like the muscles of trained athletes. Where the gleams of sunshine fall on these changing groups, I see in nature that picture of Rosa Bonheur's Ploughing in Nivernais."
There is a touching anecdote in connection with this picture. Her father, also an artist, when on his death-bed, and feeling his end approaching, desired to see his already famous daughter's latest work, and there was brought to his bed-side, Ploughing in Nivernais. The dying artist beheld and wept. A silent tribute, it is recorded, more prized by his daughter than all the world's applause in after years.
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