Cows drinking

Léon-Victor Dupré (1816-1879) was born in Limoges and specialised in landscape paintings. He became one of the leading painters of the Barbizon school and had a very quiet life. He taught the animal painter Eugène Cottin (1840-1902).

This painting is a fine example of Victor Dupré's output. He painted mainly landscape paintings inahibited by cows and sometimes small figures. His technique, a luminous and broken brushwork, is characteristic of the Barbizon school.