{"product_id":"antique-british-cow-oil-painting-lake-landscape-1875","title":"Antique British Cow Oil Painting Lake Landscape, Circa 1875","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eCattle rest in a lakeside pasture below blue mountains, a recumbent piebald cow holding the foreground while the herd grazes toward the water and a single sail crosses the distance. The work sits squarely in the British Romantic landscape tradition, the picturesque loch view with cattle that descends from Dutch Italianate pastoral and ran through Victorian taste for Highland scenery. The sky and the still middle-distance water are handled with real assurance. It comes in a substantial carved and gilded Rococo Revival frame with shell and cartouche corners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Artist | Unidentified Artist, British School, 19th Century\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Signature | No signature located\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Medium | Oil on canvas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Subject | Lake landscape with cattle grazing, distant mountains and sail\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Origin | British, unattributed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Age | Antique, circa 1860 to 1890\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Canvas Size | 30 in. W x 25 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame Size | 37 in. W x 32 in. H\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Format | Horizontal rectangle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Frame | Carved and gilded gesso, Rococo Revival, period or near-period, with losses\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Style | British Romantic landscape, cattle in a picturesque lake setting\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e[d]British School | A period term for a work made in the British tradition by an unidentified hand, when style, subject, and construction point clearly to British origin but no signature or documentation names the artist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[d]Support | Relined canvas on a keyed wooden stretcher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e[condition]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe painting has been relined onto a plain-weave lining canvas over a keyed wooden stretcher, so the original reverse and anything it carried is no longer accessible. Fine net craquelure runs throughout the sky, consistent with a 19th century oil. There is a crack through the sky near the top center. The upper left sky shows an area of paint loss and lifting where the ground is visible, and there are scattered small losses in the lower left foreground. There is a tear in the lower left corner of the canvas. Multiple restoration areas are visible across the surface. I have not had the surface examined beyond visual inspection and in-hand observation, and I recommend confirming the extent of the restoration and the stability of the sky loss in person.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe frame is a substantial carved and gilded gesso frame in the Rococo Revival manner, with shell and cartouche corners and centers over a cross-hatched ground. The carving and gesso are intact; it shows gilding loss and rub to the high points, consistent with age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e#215\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Austyn Marie Design","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51482665255190,"sku":"AMD-03656","price":2900.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0896\/4623\/5926\/files\/Belgium_FranceInventoryContinued-9307.jpg?v=1785185550","url":"https:\/\/austyn-marie.myshopify.com\/products\/antique-british-cow-oil-painting-lake-landscape-1875","provider":"Austyn Marie Design","version":"1.0","type":"link"}