Two Cows in a Meadow (Deux vaches dans un pré)
Claude-Emile Schuffenecker (Fresne-St-Mamés, Haute-Saône 1851 - Paris 1934)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1886 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
489 x 648 mm (19 ¼ x 25 ½ in)
Place of origin
France
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Mompesson House, Wiltshire
NT 724321
Caption
This wonderfully illuminated painting dates from the artist’s first visit to Brittany in the summer of 1886. Although looser strokes, his meticulous use of small flecks of paint in paired complementary colours shows knowledge of the ‘point’ technique employed by the neo-Impressionist, Seurat and his followers Signac and Pissarro. He would have seen their work at the 8th and last Impressionist exhibition the same year, where he also exhibited. Schuffenecker is little known compared to his contemporaries although he was a colleague and good friend of Gauguin and Emile Bernard and an early collector of the works of Van Gogh. This painting was first owned by another artist, Georges Daniel de Monfried, artist (1856 -1929), also a friend of Gauguin.
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Two Cows in a Meadow (Deux vaches dans un pré) by Claude-Emile Schuffenecker (Fresne-St-Mamés, Haute-Saône 1851 - Paris 1934), signed, bottom left - Schuffenecker 1886.
Provenance
Georges Daniel de Monfried (1856 -1929), artist; Wildenstein, Paris; bought from Wildenstein, London by Mr. R. Fitzmaurice (d.1983) in 1977 by whom bequeathed to the National Trust and placed at Mompesson.
Makers and roles
Claude-Emile Schuffenecker (Fresne-St-Mamés, Haute-Saône 1851 - Paris 1934), artist