Panto Bull

Encountered this nineteenth century oil painting yesterday. It's a detailed study for a much larger painting involving a grand landscape which is all black & damnation reds, very dramatic. However, the bull's stance in this smaller study was more appealing due to it's amusing pantomime quality. As though the back's not quite sure what the front's up to...
The bull looks none too pleased about this...

Comments

A wonderful painting!
xx
julie
Murgatroyd said…
We were rather taken with him...