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Barnyard

Artist Eugène Verboeckhoven (Belgian, 1798-1881)

Place of OriginBelgium

Date1863

Dimensions26 1/2 × 35 in. (67.3 × 88.9 cm)

MediumOil on panel

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LineGiven 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

On View

Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 33

Label TextEugène 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.