Landscape with the returning herd by Thomas Gainsborough

Gainsborough was very fond of portraying a rural landscape. And always in these humble stories included people and animals. Here, too, a herd of well-fed cows comes back from the hillock, returning from the pasture.

Next on the ground sit a shepherd with a dog and a woman, most likely, the mistress of one of the cows. Perhaps she is interested in the behavior and well-being of her wet nurse.

The autumn landscape is simple and unsophisticated, but very intimate, light. Paints are warm. golden-ocherous.

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