International studio (30.1906/1907(1907))

The Alexander Young Collection—IV. Modern Dutch Pictures


the grey-green tones being
especially agreeable, while
the light coming from the
left is well considered. A
darker picture, charming in
its warmth of colour, is the
Shepherd and Flock (below).
The patch of sky visible at
one point through the dark
trees is an effective note
in the composition, while
in the drawing of the flock,
with its suggestion of
slow movement, we recog-
nise the great painter of
sheep. Very beautifully
rendered, in The Wet
Road (p. 287), is the soft
yet luminous sky, against

“carting sand”
The collection contains no more beautiful ex-
ample of Mauve’s art than the small water-colour,
Milking Time. In colour, drawing, and general
tonality it is superb, and the facsimile reproduction
which we have been permitted to give here presents
an excellent impression of the original. Similar
in subject and feeling is In the Shade of the Trees
(p. 291), in which the brushwork is particularly
fine. Of the sheep pictures by Mauve, The Old
Shepherd (opposite) is perhaps the most beautiful,

by anton mauve which the dark line of
the hedge, and the figures
of the man and horses, stand out with telling clear-
ness. It is a work full of poetry and quiet senti-
ment, and as an example of superb atmospheric
painting it ranks with The Sand Cart (p. 291),
another fine work, beautiful in its soft gradation of
tones and general harmony. Painted in a grey
key, but none the less attractive in its simple and
unobtrusive conception, is Homewards (p. 292), a
picture in which the dignity of labour is admirably
expressed. Carting Sand (p. 288) is, perhaps,


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“shepherd and flock”

BY ANTON MAUVE