Cattle Grazing at the Water's Edge
Willem Maris
1880
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 18 1/4 x 22 3/8 in. (46.36 x 56.83 cm) (outer frame) 15 5/8 x 19 5/8 in. (39.69 x 49.85 cm) (canvas)
- Genre
- Painting
Tags
netherlands
About
The Dutch used windmills to pump salty water out of intricately designed irrigation systems, over dykes, and into the sea. They reclaimed land from marshes in order to graze cattle on their cheese and dairy farms.
