Landscape with cattle

19th century · Oil painting · 26 × 41.7 cm

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Where is “Landscape with cattle” now? Collection: Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Not on view at present. Checked September 25, 2026.

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, United Kingdom

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

Checked: 15 days ago
In this state since: Sep 25, 2026
Source: The museum

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About the painting

Karel Dujardin (1626-1678) was born in Amsterdam and may have trained with the landscape painters Nicolaes Berchem (1620-1683) and Pieter van Lear called Bamboccio (1599-ca.1642), and he may also have worked with Paulus Potter (1625-1654). He travelled to Italy and France from around 1649 and specialised in landscape painting although he also executed few history painting and portrait. He had moved to The Hague by 1656, where he was a founding member of the confraternity Pictura. He was back in Amsterdam in 1660 where he spent the following 15 years as a respected and established artist, sought after by distinguished collectors. He apparently only had two apprentices, Martinus Laeckeman and Erick van der Weerelt or Wilkes (ca. 1648-1715), about whom nearly nothing is known. Around 1675, he left for Italy where he died 3 years later.

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This painting showing cattle and animals in an imaginary landscape, either northern or southern, is a 19th century copy in the manner of Karel Dujardin. Although it bears many similarities with Dujardin's stylistic trends, the execution is far less refined and the composition lacks of fluidity. The only human figure on the right hand side is hardly visible and the cows stand awkwardly on the pond's edges. The trees' foliage is also very blurry and the textures are crudely rendered whereas Dujardin was extremely attentive, as well as the majority of Dutch painters, to details and atmospheric effects.

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