A Taste for the Fine Arts
Currier & Ives
1868–78 · Hand-colored lithograph · Drawings and Prints
In a rural landscape with a river or lake backed by mountains, an artist's easel and painting equipment have been left unattended. The artist has moved away to chat with a woman holding a pail outside a cottage and neither notice the cattle attracted to his belongings. A cow licks the canvas propped on the easel, a calf moves towards the open painting box, and a bull with a bell around its neck looks at the viewer.
- Artist
- Currier & Ives
- Date
- 1868–78
- Medium
- Hand-colored lithograph
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of A. S. Colgate, 1952