Landscape with Cows in a Brook
1698
Medium
Gouache with gum arabic
Dimensions
sheet: 4 1/8 x 6 in. (10.5 x 15.2 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Jean A. Bonna Gift, 2007
Accession Number
2007.223.30
Tags
Art Historical Context
Created in 1698 by Swiss artist Felix Meyer, *Landscape with Cows in a Brook* captures a tranquil pastoral scene in delicate detail. The small gouache drawing, measuring just over four by six inches, depicts cattle resting beside a gentle stream amid a softly rendered countryside. Such intimate views of nature reflect the growing appreciation for landscape as an independent subject during the late seventeenth century, when artists began celebrating the quiet beauty of rural life. Meyer executed the work in gouache heightened with gum arabic, a medium prized for its luminous, velvety surfaces ...