DOI Heft:
No. 166 (January, 1907)
DOI Artikel:Halton, Ernest G.: The collection of Mr. Alexander Young, [4]: the modern dutch pictures
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20716#0308
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" by anton mauve which the dark line of
the hedge, and the figures
The collection contains no more beautiful ex- of the man and horses, stand out with telling clear-
ample of Mauve's art than the small water-colour, ness. It is a work full of poetry and quiet senti-
Milking Time. In colour, drawing, and general ment, and as an example of superb atmospheric
tonality it is superb, and the facsimile reproduction painting it ranks with The Sand Cart (p. 291),
which we have been permitted to give here presents another fine work, beautiful in its soft gradation of
an excellent impression of the original. Similar tones and general harmony. Painted in a grey
in subject and feeling is In the Shade of the Trees key, but none the less attractive in its simple and
(p. 291), in which the brushwork is particularly unobtrusive conception, is Homewards (p. 292), a
fine. Of the sheep pictures by Mauve, The Old picture in which the dignity of labour is admirably
Shepherd (opposite) is perhaps the most beautiful, expressed. Carting Sand (p. 288) is, perhaps,
"shepherd and flock" by anton mauve
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" by anton mauve which the dark line of
the hedge, and the figures
The collection contains no more beautiful ex- of the man and horses, stand out with telling clear-
ample of Mauve's art than the small water-colour, ness. It is a work full of poetry and quiet senti-
Milking Time. In colour, drawing, and general ment, and as an example of superb atmospheric
tonality it is superb, and the facsimile reproduction painting it ranks with The Sand Cart (p. 291),
which we have been permitted to give here presents another fine work, beautiful in its soft gradation of
an excellent impression of the original. Similar tones and general harmony. Painted in a grey
in subject and feeling is In the Shade of the Trees key, but none the less attractive in its simple and
(p. 291), in which the brushwork is particularly unobtrusive conception, is Homewards (p. 292), a
fine. Of the sheep pictures by Mauve, The Old picture in which the dignity of labour is admirably
Shepherd (opposite) is perhaps the most beautiful, expressed. Carting Sand (p. 288) is, perhaps,
"shepherd and flock" by anton mauve