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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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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