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Pastoral Scene with Cows
ca. 19th centuryca. 19th century
13 3/4 in. x 22 1/8 in. (34.93 cm x 56.2 cm)
E. Mahlknecht (aka Edmund Mehlknecht), Austrian, (1820–1903)
Object Type:
Paintings
Creation Place:
Europe, Austria
Medium and Support:
Oil on canvas
Credit Line:
Carleton College Art Collection, gift of Charlotte M. Sanford
Accession Number:
1997.249
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- 19th Century
- Australian - Describes the various types of artwork created by Aboriginal Australians and current inhabitants such as rock art, sculpture in wood, clay and sand, body decoration and bark painting, both before and after European colonization.
- Austrian - Refers to the culture of the modern nation of Austria, or of the culture in central Europe in the area comprising modern Austria.
- canvas - Closely woven textile made in various weights, usually of flax, hemp, jute, or cotton, used especially for sails, tarpaulins, awnings, upholstery, and as a support for oil painting. Also used for a latticelike mesh made of similar material, used as a needlepoint foundation.
- oil (substance) - General term for a wide variety of viscous liquids (or easily liquefiable on warming) that are both combustible and immiscible in water. The character of oils may be mineral (e.g., paraffin), vegetable (e.g., linseed), animal (e.g., fish), essential (e.g., turpentine), or edible (e.g., olive).
- oil painting (technique) - The art or practice of producing creative works in oil paint, which is pigment suspended in vegetal drying oils. It dates from at least the Middle Ages in Europe, and was widely adopted for easel painting by the fifteenth century.
- oil paintings (visual works) - Creative works in the medium of oil paint.
- paintings (visual works) - Unique works in which images are formed primarily by the direct application of pigments suspended in oil, water, egg yolk, molten wax, or other liquid, arranged in masses of color, onto a generally two-dimensional surface.