Cleveland Museum of Art
A Herdsman with Three Cows by an Upland Pool
Thomas Gainsborough (British, 1727–1788) · mid-1780s
Following the instruction of the influential painter and writer Jonathan Richardson, Gainsborough often arranged his landscape compositions with the brightest passage—here, the white cow and billowing clouds—near the center.
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