![Anton Mauve - The Return of the Flock, Laren [c.1886-87] by Gandalf's Gallery](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_uHCpRVJQ-SODTDc7K-shlUDD9eQsw1ZjecYaHpfx2H4oyOVZobFzESc8UT7cZE55lxrkdvCn5lVpOsQZmPeJ3HR81HqoOF46zDaKt8TjPB-6PO0MQToZd_gTjP904T1g=s0-d)
Mauve (Dutch, 1838 - 1888) was a master of depicting moist, low places populated by domestic animals and their anonymous keepers. As this painting so convincingly demonstrates, his ability to control gentle, nearly monochromatic tones, while not losing a sense of either the place or the moment, puts him in direct and happy comparison with the two French artists he most admired: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Jean-François Millet.
[Philadelphia Museum of Art - Oil on canvas, 100.2 x 161.3 cm]
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