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Grazing cows in a meadow by Jan Voerman, 1900
Rijksmuseum · wikidata.org
He apparently spent most of his life painting one stretch of the IJssel around Hattem — same water, same skies, over and over. And cows in a wet field is about as standard a Dutch subject as there is; they say buyers have wanted that exact view since the 1600s.
Erisava: Cows in a peaceful field. Somebody bought this, and it ended up in a museum.
Cows in a soggy meadow by Willem Maris, 1900
Rijksmuseum · wikidata.org
Public domain
From what I've read he was the youngest of three brothers who all painted — the other two went off to town views and stranger things, and he stuck with cows in wet fields for his entire life.
Erisava: Why are they standing in the water when there's a perfectly good field right there?