Jean-Baptiste-Charles Claudot (Attributed), Pastoral Crossing With Figures & Cattle

Jean-Baptiste-Charles Claudot (Attributed), Pastoral Crossing With Figures & CattleThis beautiful late 18th century pastoral landscape painting, attributed to French painter Jean Baptiste Charles Claudot (1733 1805), depicts a small group of figures and cattle crossing a shallow ford beneath towering woodland trees. Claudot was one of the leading landscape painters of Lorraine. A quiet procession unfolds across the foreground. Cattle wade through the clear water while a young rider guides his horse into the stream. Nearby, a

Note the subtleties in the skin tones

Medium: Tempera on paperOverall size: 73” x 19” / 187cm x 48cmYear of creation: c

It’s probably the artist’s sisters

Theodor Von Der Beek (1838-1921)

Born in Manchester

Influenced equally by Rembrandt’s fleshy brushwork and the emerging avant garde

also became a marine painter

perhaps his wife

were somewhat more liberal with less attention to the minutiae and more on the transient light effects

It could be anywhere

New York / Private collection

Our reference: BRV2173