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Pastoral Landscape

Karel Dujardin (1626–1678)

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

Pastoral Landscape

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Two boys relax in the evening sun, the animals in their care arranged informally in the landscape. Dujardin painted numerous scenes of animals and herders travelling and resting with a sensitive feeling for light. Here, the artist adopts a low viewpoint which leaves us looking up disconcertingly at the beasts and arbitrarily cuts off the figures. As if to emphasise the element of chance, the edge of the painting bisects the tree to the right, whilst another to the left, which might have framed the figures, is reduced to a stump.

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

Birmingham

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Title

Pastoral Landscape

Date

probably 1650s

Medium

oil on wood

Measurements

H 28 x W 34 cm

Accession number

67.2

Acquisition method

purchased, 1967

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Signed: K. DU. JARDIN

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The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands B15 2TS England

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Karel Dujardin

1626–1678

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