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Landscape with a Woman Milking a Cow and a Child Begging for Milk c.1745-50
Oil on panel | 66.1 x 48.6 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external) | RCIN 401269

Francesco Zuccarelli (Pitigliano 1702-Florence 1788)
Landscape with a Woman Milking a Cow and a Child Begging for Milk c.1745-50
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Beneath a tall pine tree at the right a woman sits with her right hand to her left breast. A kneeling child at her legs gestures to a woman milking a cow at the left. Beyond is a valley and a mountain, with some buildings at the right.
This work is a pendant to Landscape with Peasant Woman and Two Children Begging from a Cavalier (RCIN 401276). The pictures are patently composed as a pair, and there is perhaps a nuance of Dutch influence in their style and subject matter. The quality of the pair is good, and they are likely to be fairly mature work, executed for Consul Smith.Provenance
Acquired in 1762 by George III from Joseph Smith, British Consul in Venice (Italian List nos 174-5); recorded in the Queen’s Drawing Room at Kew in 1805 (no 14)
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Medium and techniques
Oil on panel
Measurements
66.1 x 48.6 cm (support, canvas/panel/stretcher external)
78.0 x 60.3 x 3.6 cm (frame, external)
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