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A young girl knitting in the foreground sits on a tuft of grass in a sand dune near grazing cow…
Pasturage in the Dunes
A young girl knitting in the foreground sits on a tuft of grass in a sand dune near grazing cow…
A young girl knitting in the foreground sits on a tuft of grass in a sand dune near grazing cows on the horizon.
Pasturage in the Dunes, Raphael Lewisohn, c. 1897-1907, oil on canvas, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.

Pasturage in the Dunes

Datec. 1897 - 1907
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 45 5/8 × 35 1/4 inches (115.9 × 89.5 cm)
Framed: 54 1/4 × 44 × 2 3/4 inches (137.8 × 111.8 × 7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase.
Object number1907.9
On View
On view
CopyrightThe images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextIn this painting, a young goatherd is shown seated on the dunes in the foreground, immersed in her tatting, her goats grazing behind her and the sea barely visible on the horizon. The Telfair’s fine arts advisor, Gari Melchers, purchased Pasturage in the Dunes for the museum’s permanent collection in 1907. Melchers lived and worked in the small Dutch fishing village of Egmond from 1884 to 1915; this work must have appealed to Melchers for both it vivid coloration and its Dutch subject.
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