A Taste for the Fine Arts

Publisher Currier & Ives American

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In a rural landscape with a river or lake backed by mountains, an artist's easel and painting equipment have been left unattended. The artist has moved away to chat with a woman holding a pail outside a cottage and neither notice the cattle attracted to his belongings. A cow licks the canvas propped on the easel, a calf moves towards the open painting box, and a bull with a bell around its neck looks at the viewer.

A Taste for the Fine Arts, Currier & Ives (American, active New York, 1857–1907), Hand-colored lithograph

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