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WATERING CATTLE
By CONSTANT TROYON

WATERING CATTLE
By CONSTANT TROYON (1810-1865)
IN THE WALLACE COLLECTION, LONDON

Troyon, who has been described as the first of the great French Romanticists, was born at Sevres. It was natural that his talent for art should lead him to work in the famous porcelain factory of his native town, and at the tender age of seven he was receiving his first lessons there. As he grew older landscape painting attracted him, and at the age of twenty-three, young in years but not inexperienced in art, he first exhibited at the Salon. He established himself in Paris in 1842, and became associated with a brilliant company of landscape painters, which included Millet, Rousseau, Diaz, Decamps, and other remarkable men. Troyon worthily maintained the reputation of this school by the landscape paintings to which he now devoted himself. Ere long, however, study of the work of Paul Potter gave another turn to his talent. The masterly combination of cattle with landscape exhibited by the Dutch painter inspired Troyon to similar work, and from that time he began to achieve his greatest successes.

The outstanding merit of his compositions is found in his capacity for blending the cattle into the landscape so that one forms, as it were, an essential part of the other. It would be difficult to choose between his work and that of the Dutch artist who inspired him in this respect; though the latter is certainly his superior in what may be termed the " characterisation" of cattle. The work of both artists may be studied and compared at Hertford House, for two of Troyon's pictures and three of Potter's are included in the Wallace Collection.

From the book "Famous Paintings" Volume 2 printed in 1913.

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Online "Name the Painting"

Constant Troyon
at Wikipedia

Constant Troyon
at Lawrence J. Cantor & Company

"The Approaching Storm"
painting by Troyon at the National Gallery of Art

Constant Troyon
images at Wikimedia Commons

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Thomas Gainsborough Queen Charlotte	Thomas Gainsborough The Market Cart	Jean Baptiste Greuze The Head of a Girl	Jean Baptiste Greuze Fidelity
James Clark Hook Home With the Tide	Alfred William Hunt Windsor Castle	Josef Israels The Shipwrecked Mariner	B.W. Leader The Stream in Summer-time
Madame Vigee Le Brun Portrait of the Artist	Alphonse Legros A Canal With a Fisherman	Anton Mauve Watering Horses	J.L.E. Meissonier The Cavalier
Sir J.E. Millais Speak! Speak!	Sir J.E. Mallais My First Sermon	George Morland The Reckoning	George Morland The Inside of a Stable
Murillo The Immaculate Conception of the Virgin	Alfred Parsons When Nature Painted All Things Gay	Ralph Peacock The Sisters	Rembrandt Syndics of the Cloth Merchants' Guild
Guido Reni "Ecce Homo"	Sir Joshua Reynolds Portrait of Mrs. Richard Hoare With Her Infant Son	Briton Riviere The Temptation in the Wilderness	Dante Gabriel Rossetti Day Dreams
John Singer Sargent Miss Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth	Lady Stanley (Dorothy Tennant) His First Offence	Jan Steen Grace Before Meat	Marcus Stone On the Road from Waterloo to Paris
Constant Troyon Watering Cattle	H.S. Tuke "All Hands to the Pumps"	Velazquez King Philip IV. of Spain	S.E. Waller Sweethearts and Wives
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