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Barnyard

Barnyard

Artist: Eugène Verboeckhoven (Belgian, 1798-1881)
Date: 1863
Dimensions:
26 1/2 × 35 in. (67.3 × 88.9 cm)
Medium: Oil on panel
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Given in honor of Katherine A., Nancy R., and Thomas J. Fairhurst by Thomas M. Fairhurst, Virginia Fairhurst Keller, and William Fairhurst
Object number: 2019.65
Label Text:Eugène Verboeckhoven was one of the last in the tradition of realist painters of animals, which extended back to the 17th-century Dutch artist Paulus Potter and others. Verboeckhoven possessed an acute eye for the close observation of nature. He also had a skill for endowing his animals with distinct and seemingly individualized “personalities,” a quality evident in this appealing scene.
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