Cor De Boer, Pastoral Scene With Figures

Cor De Boer, Pastoral Scene With FiguresA peaceful early 20th century oil painting depicting a pastoral scene with cows and figures. On the reverse, the artist, Cor De Boer (1878 1961) has inscribed Hommage Corot, which is a reference to French landscape painter, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot (1796 1875). The painting is held within a later frame and signed in the lower right. Medium: Oil on boardOverall size: 19 x 14 48cm x 37cmYear of creation: c. 1930Provenance: BelgiumCondition: Very

A fine early 19th-century portrait of a lady wearing a beautiful pink dress

and it would look extraordinarily out of place not to

which has extensive craquelure

such as Sotheby’s

he moved to Starcross in Devon

Drews was predominantly a landscape painter but also had a fascination for capturing the effects of light within a room

blue and brown

was an accomplished landscape painter and all six of his sons became artists

Either way

There’s a ‘lost in time’ quality to it and perhaps it was an area that the artist knew well

we see three figures by a cottage with one resting on horseback

Ladies would proudly don the latest floral dresses and ornament themselves with fans