Cow in a Barn Art Print - Camille Corot Size:12″×16″ Deerhounds were bred to hunt

Deerhounds were bred to hunt deer by running them down

and until recently was never doubted as his work

while its faint primitivism betrays the earnest autodidact that he was

depicts a dog that belonged to a gentleman known as the Vicomte d'Armaille

Cow in a Barn Art Print - Camille Corot Size:12″×16″ Deerhounds were bred to huntAbout the Art: This study of a cow may be unique in the artists oeuvre. It might be a Breton cow or perhaps a Fribourg, both fairly widespread types. Corot is not often thought of as a painter of animals because he included them infrequently in his paintings. Yet when they do appearin landscapes, mythological scenes, and even portraitsthey evince a directness and sensitivity commensurate with his treatment of the human form. Title: Cow in a Barn