Very finely detailed animalistic painting by well-renowed  Belgian painter-animalist Frans Van Severdonck (1790- Brussels - 1881). Belgian painter, lived and worked in Brussels and mainly painted genre scenes and landscapes with cows, sheep and poultry. He can be counted among the followers of the Belgian cattle painter Eugène Verboeckhoven, throughout the 19th century, the cattle piece a very popular genre. In Belgium, among others, of French Leemputten and Remy Maes followers Verboeckhoven in Netherlands Albertus Verhoesen.

Museums: Bucharest, Rouen and Sète.

Literature: P. & V. Berko, "Dictionary of Animal Painters; Belgian and Dutch Artists born between 1750 and 1880", Knokke 1998; E.Benezit "Dictionnaire des peintres , sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs",Gründ, 1999; Thieme/Becker "Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon", Leipzig, 1999.

Inscription: signed lower right.

Technique: oil on mahogony wood panel, luxuriousy original period gold-plated frame.

Measurements: 10 1/4" x 7 1/8" (26 x 18 cm); framed w 17 3/4" x 14 1/2" (45 x 37 cm).

Condition: in very good condition.