Mountainous Landscape with Oxen panicking whilst drawing a Cart
Pierre Henri de Valenciennes (Toulouse 1750 - Paris 1819)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1807 (signed and dated)
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
991 x 1384 mm (39 x 54 1/2 in)
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Bradenham, Buckinghamshire
NT 765485
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, Mountainous Landscape with Oxen panicking whilst drawing a Cart by Pierre Henri de Valenciennes (Touluose 1750 - Paris 1819), signed and dated, bottom left, 1807. A cart carrying a half-naked woman and child looses a wheel as pulled by two oxen over difficult ground at the bottom of a rocky mountain. Hilly landscape behind with water below and a building beside it and one on top of the mountain and of a distant hill. Moulded gilded frame.
Provenance
?Bequeathed by Ernest Edward Cook (1865 - 1955) with the house (not in NACF 1991 list)
Marks and inscriptions
signed bottom left 'Valenciennes'?
Makers and roles
Pierre Henri de Valenciennes (Toulouse 1750 - Paris 1819), artist